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THE Bank of En gland sig¬
nalled yesterday that inan
rates wfll have to rise again if
the Government is to hit its
inflation target The warning
comes less than two months
after rales were increased half
a percentage point to 5.75.

The warning was given- in
spite of the fact that the Bank
admitted that inflation is Eke*
ly to stay at 25 per cent until
mid-1996. close to the next
ejection, it has yet again been,
caught out by the good news
on inflation, which fdl to
another 30^ar low in Sep¬
tember. in yesfenfcty'S Infla¬
tion Report, it revised its
forecasts for inflation substan¬
tially. do w n war d s from those
published in August.

This provided a fillip late
. yesterday to the financial mar-
■ 4 Juts, which saw strong rea¬
sons in the repeat to leave
interest rates unchanged for
the timebemg inspiteaf foe
Bank'S fongpr -trmi p wrt pn

There is ‘ stiff'inxai&inty -
about what wil! bfc.decided. 4
today when- EddfejGcQEgc.the\
Bank Governor, and Kenneth
Clarke, tin Chaocefior,
for their regular nwfdhly sts-
sion to discuss interestrates.

The Bank said yeaerday
that it believes foal underlying
inflation, which exdudes
mortgage inter est payments,
wiD be at 25 per cent in two
years* time instead of foe 3 per
cent it estimated in August .

This is exactly in the middle
of the Governments target
range of 1 to 4 pa- rent The
Bank and the Treasury are
committed, however, to mfta-
tkjn in foe bottom half of that
range by the aid of tins
parliament — bddw 25 per .

. cent Hence its wanting on
rates. .

City eomontists were dear
that , foe Bank will push for
another, base-rate rise soon,
but were unsure whether Mr
George will ride asking for
one today, given the Chancel¬
lor's reluctance to dedde one
in September when base rates
were raised from 525 per cent
from 5.75 per cent.

John Shepperd, chief econo¬
mist at YamaidufnternatkHJ-
al Europe. said: “The
Chancellor took two days*
thinking to agree to the lari
base rate rise. It could take
him a bit longer this time.''
The downward revision in

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day*s report may mean that
Mr George hasatough time
perstadmg Mr Clarice to

agree to another rate rise

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Roger Bootle, at Midland
Bank, said: T would be sur¬
prised if the authorities decid¬
ed to raise rates again so soon,
given tiie latest forecast But it
depends on their determ¬
ination to push inflation down
to the bottom half of its target
range.”

He conceded that today’s
meeting may be the last
chance to raise rates this year.
The next opportunity would
come just after the Budget and
a rate rise then could be
construed as athumbs down

to the Chancellor’s efforts. A
rate rise in December would,
he said, invite unwelcome
comparisons with Scrooge.

The wiki card in today’s
(tedskxHxiakmg is how much
tiie Chancellor and foe Gover¬
nor want to win praise from
the financial markets for
another early pre-emptive
strike against inflation.

There has been much self-
congratulation in Whitehall
and ThreadneedJe Street
about the anti-inflation credi¬
bility built up with the mar¬
kets by raising interest rates
an September 12 With the
markets yesterday betting
against a rate rise this time,
die credibility brownie points
could be even greater.

Michael Saunders, chief
economist at Salomon Broth¬
ers. said that the Bank’s latest
inflation estimate was suffi¬
ciently dose to the Govern¬
ment's target to weaken the
case for an immediate rate
rise. But he added: “If they do
it, it would send an extremely
powerful signal to the markets
that they mean business on

i nflation .**

The Bank outlined a num¬
ber of changes in economic
behaviour — some of them
arguably lasting — which
have kept prices under pres¬
sure during foe recovery and
have, with Septembers rate
rise, accounted for the down¬
ward revision of its inflation
forecast

It highlighted fierce high
street competition, which may
be a permanent feature, as
well as the behaviour of wages
which have been surprisingly
subdued despite falling
unemployment

Freed hostages, left to right. Paul Ridout Miles Croston, American Bela Joseph Nuss. and Rhys Partridge, talking to foe press in Delhi yesterday

Kashmiris’ British hostages free after gunfight

From Christopher Thomas

IN DELHI

THREE Britons lured into
captivity by a Kashmiri sepa¬
ratist group were rescued
yesterday after a pre-dawn
gun battle in which two police¬
man and a kidnapper died.

Five of foe kidnappers —
two Afghans and three
Kashmiris — were arrested
after the fierce battle in Saha-
ranpur. 120 miles north of
Delhi. Police said three men
escaped. On Monday, another
man from the group was
killed in a gun battle in a
village outside Ghaziabad, 12
miles east of Delhi, where an
American, Bela Joseph Nuss.
43. had been held in chains.

Last night, Paul Ridout, 26,
of Dorset Rhys Partridge, 27,

of Suffolk, and Miles Croston.
28. of Buckinghamshire, told
journalists that they had been
befriended at different rimes
by the same man. “We were
lured into going » Saharan-
pur by an Indian who had
befriended us. on September
29 in the case of Rhys and

October 16 in foe case of Myles
and myself." Mr Ridout said.
“Our ‘friend’ turned into our
captor. We were held at
gunpoint from then on."

He said that they were
treated “as well as you can be
when you are chained to the
floor. 1 mean you are treated

like an animal ’. Mr Ridout
added: "When the fighting
began we were able to tell foe
police where we were." They
thanked the Indian authorities
for rescuing them and ex¬
pressed their sorrow “for foe
families of foe police officers
who were killed”.

Khmer Rouge execute Westerners

THREE Western hostages
captured by the Khmer Rouge
in Cambodia, including Mark
Slater, from Corby. North¬
amptonshire. have been
found dead (James Prigle
writes).

Cambodia’s junior Prime
Minister, Hun Sen. said yes¬
terday that the graves of the
three, captured in late July as

they travelled by train for a
beach holiday, had been
found in the southern prov¬
ince of Kampot, where foe)*
are known to have been held.

Government officials said
they believed Mr Slater. 28.
David Wilson. 29. from Aus¬
tralia. and Frenchman Jean-
Mkhel Braque! 27. had been
executed by their captors on

about September 28. In Pe¬
king. King Norodom Siha¬
nouk said he felt “sad and
humiliated" that he had been
unable to save the hostages,
"whose only crime was to feel
sincere disinterested love for
Cambodia and its people”.

In London, the Govern¬
ment condemned foe killings
as a barbaric outrage.

The captors, who described
themselves is members of Ai-
Hadid, a small, extremist
Islamic faction, had demand¬
ed the release of ter, Kashmiri
militants heiii in Indian jails
and had earlier threatened to
behead their hostages.

Yesterday Mr Pan ridge’s
mother. Pamcia. said at her
home in Manlesham, Suffolk:
"It w -as such a wonderful relief
when they told me he was
alive and well."

At Mr Ridout’s family
home, near Verwood. Dorset,
mother Diana and father
Michael said: “Yesterday we
were completely and utterly
numb. Today were
delighted.”

Delhi triumph, page 13
Leading arlide. page 19

Pope-Hennessy
dies at 80

Sir John Pope-Hennessy. the
Italian Renaissance authority
who was director erf tfase Vks
toria and Albert Museum
from 1967:73 and the British
Museum from 1974-76, died
yesterday at his home' in
Florence. He was 80.

Prom 1977 to 1986 he was

chairman of foe department
of European painting at the
Metropolitan Museum in
New York* Obituary; page 23

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Disarray as parties bicker over
public Commons sleaze inquiry

By Philip Webster, political editor

THECtonrxmscasb-for^ues-
tkms inquiry wras thrown into
disarray last ni^it as Conser¬
vative and Labour MPs foiled
to agree on whether it should
sit in public or private. At the
same time Tony Berm’S threat
to report' its proceedings
raised fears over whether foe

MPS being investigated would
get a £ur hearing.

As foe Commons prepared
to order an investigation by
the Privileges Committee into
foe behaviour of The Guard¬
ian in the Jonathan Aitken
affair, the axomitte efs inquiry,
into allegations, that two Tory
MPS were ready to lake £1,000
to table parliamentary ques¬
tions broke up without any

David Tredinnkk and Gra-
.hftTn Jbdtfick, who had stood
outside foe committee roam

waiting to be interviewed,
were called in after two hours
to be told that they should seek
advice about tbeir positions
after the warning by Mr Berm,
the senior member of the
committee, foal be would defy
any secrecy order.

But Labour members failed
to make any headway in tbeir
att e m pt to make the hearings
public, and no further meet¬
ings will be held until after the
State Opening of the new
parliament on November 16.

■ Hie fresh question-mark
over die Privileges Conmittee
proceedings comes as MPs
vote today to refer to it The
Guardian’s methods in gain¬
ing information about Mr
Aitken. An emergency debate
on foe use by The Guardian of
foe logo of Commons notepa-
per an a fax ft sent to the Ritz

Hotel in Paris will beheld this
afternoon. It will result in a
full-scale inquiry by commit¬
tee. with Peter Preston, the
editor of foe newspaper, being
called to explain himself.

The announcement of the
inquiry came after John Major
Jed a fierce Conservative
assault on The Guardian. The

Prime Minister told MPs that
if it were commonly accepted
in’journalism that the end
justified any means, it would
regret “stooping to that partic¬
ular standard". To cheers
from the Tory benches, he
declared that systematic de¬
ception, fraud and collusion
were not what was expected of
a free press.

Conservative MPS will use
today's debate to seize the
opportunity given than by the
newspaper to continue their

offensive against the methods
and standards of foe press.
There were dear indications
yesterday of a sharp improve¬
ment in Tory morale as The
Guardian provided a focus
for a united attack in which
foe Prime Minister readily
became involved.

The developments came
amid signs of deadlock within
the Privileges Committee over
its investigation into the cash-
for-questions affair.

After the Commons vote on
Monday against automatic
public hearings, but in favour
of foe committee deciding the
Continued on page 2, col 4

Paid Johnson, and

Politics, page 10
Simon Jenkins, page 18
Letters, page 19
John Diamond, page 23

Tottenham
sack Ardiles

Tottenham Hotspur yester¬
day sacked their manager
Ossie Ardiles (above), who
succeeded the controversial
Terry Venables. He will be
replaced in the short term by
his assistant Steve Perryman.

Alan Sugar, the dub chair¬
man. said the decision to let
the former Argentinian inter¬
national go was “one of the
most difficult decisions 1 have
ever had to make in my
life”_Page 48

Britain’s seven-second hangman dies at 73

By Kathryn Knight

BRITAIN'S last surviving
hangman, Syd Dcmky. ffied
yesterday aged 73 — 41 years
after his five-year career end¬
ed- As assistant to Albert
FSerrepoint, Dernley helped
to hang-25 people; indndmg
Timothy Evans, who was
postinnnotisly pardoned.

Evans was found |*u3ty of
mattering bis wife in 1950.
bat was found to be innocent
when John Christie was
blamed for foe crime. Den dey
also helped P ien cpo m t to
hang George R2ey in 1961 for
foe murder of a 62-yearold
widow. It was his proud boast
that be was Britain’s fastest
han gman, laving assisted in

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Syd Dernley, left and Timothy Evans, one of his victims

sending James Inglis, who
imndered a prostitute in Hull
on his way in just seven

Joyce Demky, 73, his wid¬

ow. said at their home in
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire,
where he died of a heart
attack: “We were just a nor-,
mal married couple A lot of

younger folk now think it
must have been queer, but far
from it My husband was a
very unassuming man. fond
of a joke and a pint of beer.
He was very popular."

In 1989 Dernley published
his memoirs. The Hangman's
Tale, in which be described
how he decided to become a
hangman at foe age of 11 after
reading an Edgar Wallace
novel. Interviewed before
publication he said: "1 was a
profesaonal and 1 wanted to
achieve the fastest hanging
ever. I did one chap in seven
seconds. They should place
that in the Guinness Book of
Records."

Mrs Dernley said her hus¬
band never spoke to her about

individual hangings. “He’d
coroe borne and I'd say ‘is
everything all right?' and he'd
say‘yes’ and that was it"

Dernley believed his pen¬
chant for gallows humour
ended his career when
Pierrepoint was offended by a
crude joke he made. But he
never explained to his wife
why he and the chief execu¬
tioner had fallen out "Some¬
thing happened, but ft wasn't
like him to have a quarrel
with anybody," she Said.

Because of foe Official
Secrets Act. colleagues at his
full-time job — he was a
welder — never knew why he
occasionally missed work. He
was paid three guineas for
each hanging.

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Gremlins ensure cut and thrust occasionally falls below the belt

A re there gremlins in- Major should tell Geoffrey was below the belt Tories uM/toLa . . "- L - fail was olaYed bv **

side politicians? Does Hoon (lab. Ashfield) that and Labour fell about .. jjc

some dark side of an “housing benefit is more gen- It seemed the session had OBHnaO

A re there gremlins in¬
side politicians? Does
some dark side of an
MPs nature beckon him into
the very trap which will
embarrass him most? Can it
be only coincidence that on
the day when Labour got cold
feet about the sleaze frenzy.
Tony Blair should commence
his question to the Prime
Minister by declaring “there
is more than a whiff of retreat
m the alii". Tories fell about
Can it be just mischance
that with Opposition MPS
shouting “Ritz! Ritz!" Mr

Major should tell Geoffrey
Hoon (Lab. Ashfield) that
“housing benefit is more gen¬
erous here than you will find
anywhere on the Continent”?
Cries of “room service” were
audible amid the din. Labour
feD about

And what malign inner
voice advised Paddy Ash¬
down to couch his complaint
to Major (about low stan¬
dards in political life) in the
phrase “accuracy and frank¬
ness?" Ashdown's own per¬
sonal difficulties are still in
MPs’ minds. Major’s riposte

was below the belt Tories
and Labour fell about
It seemed the session had
been preordained by some
Higher Choreographer — the
political parties organised to
dance in accordance with an
overall plan. As Labour fell
back, silent on sleaze; the
Tories advanced upon the
editor of The Guardian. Tory
whips were behind the spec¬
tacle of four ex-ministers
leaping, one behind the other,
to the an&Guardian cause;
but who had whipped die
Labour Party behind its

POLITICAL SKETCH

synchronised backstep as the
Tories advanced? Had one
misdeed by one journalist
wholly reversed the moral
balance, turning a rout one
way into a rout the other?

It seemed unlikely. The
dramatic U-turn made a fine
spectacle, but hardly reflected
the ambiguities still felt on all
sides. It seems that press and

politicians unconsciously
conspire to force elements of
the news into the mould of a
simple dance routine. If indi¬
viduals or party fortunes are
not rising then they are
falling. If a cause is not
advancing it is retreating.
Words like “mounting"
"plummeting," “growing"
and “shrinking" dominate

the vocabulary of politics.
Indignation comes in
“waves." complaint in “cre¬
scendos," anger in “tides”
and. as storms "gather," the
air is full of surges, climb-
downs, comebacks and set¬
backs — with the occasional
stalemate or standoff. The
truth — thafEttie is happen¬
ing — is eas&ylosL
Certainty ft is lost on Par¬
liament: lost on David Evans
(Wefwyn, Hatfield), the To¬
ries’ most volcanic back¬
bencher. who was offered
almost the last sound-bite of

Heseltine in
fight to save
Post sell-off

By Nicholas Wood, chief political correspondent

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MICHAEL Heseltine was des¬
perately trying to salvage
something last night from the
wreckage of his plans to sell
off the Royal Mail.

The President of the Board
of Trade was working on a
compromise designed to give
the Post Office greater com¬
mercial freedom while selling
off only a minority stake. But
at the same time Treasury
limitations on its scope for
borrowing would be eased to
enable the organisation to
compete internationally.

Under one option being
canvassed, the Government
would sell some 40 per cent of
the shares - compared with
the 51 per cent sale favoured
by Mr Heseltine—40 per cent
would remain in the public.
sector and another 20 per cent
would be hived off into an
independent trust for Post
Office employees.

According to ministers this
would mean that officially, it
would not be part of the public
sector and would not fall
within the public sector bor¬
rowing requirement It would
therefore have greater free¬
dom to borrow on the finan¬
cial markets.

The Cabinet's industrial,
commercial and consumer af¬
fairs committee is due to meet
today in an attempt to resolve
the affair and minimise the
political fallout from what will
be widely seen as a Govern¬
ment dimbdown in the face of
a threatened backbench Tory
rebellion. A full meeting of the
Cabinet tomorrow is expected

to kill Mr Heseltine’s proposal
and endorse a compromise
solution.

But Mr Heseltine's friends
are livid about the way the
Government has crumpled.
They are dismayed that a
proposal Mr Heseltine has
fought to get through the
Cabinet now looks like being
scuppered by what they re¬
gard as no more than a dozen
diefiards. "It is a classic case of
the tail wagging the dog.” said
one.

Yesterday Mr Major laid
die ground for a government
retreat Under pressure from
Tony Blair in the Commons,
the Prime Minister refrained
from mentioning the Govern¬
ments preferred option of a 51
per cent sale of its stake in the
Royal Mail and highlighted
the “success" of measures
already taken to make the
business more competitive.

Mr Major struck a cautious
note as Mr Heseltine private¬
ly conceded that his original
proposals were dead ana em¬
barked on an effort to sell his
compromise scheme. He was
seeing individually some of
the 20 Tory MPS who have
signalled their opposition to a
public flotation of a majority
of the shares in the business.

Mr Heseltine's fail-back
position would go part way
towards the Government's fa¬
voured formula of joint owner¬
ship and enable him to argue
that he had averted total
defeat in his crusade to equip
the Royal Mail for the next
century.

An American Eagle ATR-72 commuter plane of the type that crashed in Indiana

Methodist workers among seven
Britons killed in US air crash

By Harvey Elliott, air correspondent, and Tom Rhodes in Washington

TWO Church workers re¬
turning home to Lancashire
were among seven Britons
who died in a commuter
aeroplane crash near Chica¬
go on Monday evening that
billed 68 passengers and
crew.

As crash investigators con¬
tinued to trawl the wreckage
of die American Eagle ATR-
72 turboprop, whiefr feD
from 8,000ft into a cornfield
40 miles short of its destina¬
tion. a build-up of ice on the
wings was believed to be fixe
most likely cause of the crash.

Ken Leech, a Free Method¬
ist minister and former po¬
liceman. of Preston, and his
assistant Alan Ramm. of Gar-
stang, both 55. were going to
catch a connecting flight
from Chicago after a church
conference in Indianapolis.
Mr Leech's widow Joan was
being comforted by relatives
last night The couple had
three grown-up sons.

Mr Ramm. who was also
married and had one son.
was Mr Leech’s full-time ad¬

ministrative assistant an d
started working for the
church six years ago after
leaving his job as a teacher in
PreesalL Lancashire.

The other British victims
were Betty Tweedit 61. of
Renfrew. Strathclyde, and
her friend Klmlw rii McKay,
63, of nearby Hfflington, who
were on holiday; Jo Parmar.
of Sutton Coldfield; Fan
Garbutt 31. of HaiticpooL
Cleveland; and William

Reading. 34, from Binfield,
Berkshire, who was a profes¬
sor at Montreal Universty.

Mrs Tweed! e, a widow,
sang in the choir at Renfrew
.Trinity Church. The minister,
the Rev Stuart Steefl, said
Mrs Tweedie, an elder of the
church, was a "tower of
strength to many people".

Last night Mis McKay’s
brother Tom said: They had
been having a wonderful
holiday. I had just spoken to

Victims: Ken Leech and Alan Ramm

Backpackers ignore advice
in search for adventure

By Harvey Elliott, travel correspondent

MPs in sleaze inquiry row

MORE than four million
backpackers will head for the
world’s most remote and dan¬
gerous regions this year in
what for many will be their
last chance of adventure
before the burdens of
adulthood.

The Foreign Office issues
warnings about travelling
overseas, but such advice acts
as a lure rather than a
discouragement for some.
There are risks even away

CORRECTIOWy

A report (October 22] incor¬
rectly stated that Labour won
two seats in the Eel Brook
ward of the London borough
of Hammersmith and Fulham
in May. In fact they won only
one. the Liberal Democrats
taking the other.

from known troublespots. as
the three Britons kidnapped
in Delhi found.

The latest travel advice
notes from the Foreign Office
say that visitors to India “are
strongly advised to avoid the
state of Jammu and Kash¬
mir". They say that in the
Kashmir Valley there has
been "some mil itant activity
including robbery, kidnap¬
ping and murder".

Of Cambodia, where it was
confirmed yesterday that the
British hostage Mark Slater
had been lulled, the notes say:
"British visitors are strongly
advised not to travel outside
Phnom Penh.”

About 20 per cent of stu¬
dents take a "gap" year before
going to university and many
of these go abroad simply to
travel or to work.

Young Britons are among
the most widely travelled in

the world according to Lonely
Planet the guidebook pub¬
lisher. While parents fret at
home over their safety and
well-being, the youngsters
head for areas where they
believe they are likely to find
the most adventure and often
the most risk.

With discount air fares now
readily available, it is possible
to visit countries that seemed
impossible to reach only a few
years ago. Accommodation is
also cheap in these underde¬
veloped areas, with many
rooms in India available at
well under £3 a night

The Association of Inde¬
pendent Tour Operators said
there had been a 500 per cent
increase in the number of
“adventure" travellers in the
past five years.

Delhi triumphs, page 13

Leading article, page 19

Continued from page I

precise form of its inquiry.
Labour and Tory committee
members engaged in a
lengthy wrangle about proce¬
dure when it met last night.

Betty Boothroyd. the Speak¬
er. announced that todays
debate would cover “the al¬
leged action of The Guardian
newspaper in representing
that a letter sent by it to the
Ritz Hotel in Paris was sent in
the name of a Member of this
House”. It followed a co¬
ordinated assault on the news¬
paper during Prime Minis¬
ter’s question time, with
Conservatives lining up to
criticise Mr Preston and sev¬
eral calling on him to resign
from the Press Complaints
Commission.

One former Tory minister.
Sir Wyn Roberts, protested:
“StMaOed investigative jour¬
nalism has stink to a new all-
time low. If a newspaper is
found to have used the name
of this House to give false
authority to its activities, that
newspaper deserves to lose the
respect and confidence of this

House.” Mr Major said that a
diverse and wholly indepen¬
dent press was an important
protector of democracy. “What
is particularly sad is the
casual abuse of whal were
previously once high expected
standards. If it is'commonly
accepted in journalism that
the end justifies any means,
then 1 believe journalism will
regret stooping to that particu¬
lar standard.

"1 hope that is not the case, i
hope honest, factual journal¬
ism remains important to our
democratic system. But sys¬
tematic deception, fraud and
collusion is most certainly not
what we expect from a free
press."

Mr Major, who has left
friends in no doubt over his
anger at the recent spate of
allegations, surprised MPS
with a fierce and personal put-
down for Paddy Ashdown.

The Liberal Democrat lead¬
er asked him whether he was
satisfied with the promptness,
accuracy and frankness with
winch Mr Aitken had re¬
sponded to questions. Conser¬

vative and Labour MPs bayed
as Mr Major told Mr
Ashdown that he and other
MPs “may be wholly satisfied
with your own blameless pasts
in every respect”.

The Prime Minister said
that over many yeans The
Guardian and the present
editor had from time to tune
thundered against general
standards in public life. “That
is the right of the press to do
that," he said. “I simply invite
them to observe their own
standards themselves."

The motion calling for The
Guardian affair to go before
the committee will be moved
by David Wilshire. Conserva¬
tive MP for Spelthome, who
had lodged a formal com¬
plaint It is likely to be
supported by the Labour front
bench, but some Labour left¬
wingers are expected to op¬
pose the motion.

PaoJ Johnson, and

Politics, page 10
Simon Jenkins, page 18
Letters, page 19
. John Diamond, page 23

the exchanges. Evans turned
it into a sound-gobble- Tur¬
key-purple. he yelled allega¬
tions of sleaze at Mr Blair
“that lot over there" who were

“a bunch of fiddlers”- At one
point he paused to glan ce at
his notes. “Reading!" shouted
Labour. “He cant." shouted
Tony Banks.

■ It made a contrast with
qtresfions to the Education
Secretary, the minnsy Gill ian
Shephard. With her band of
backbench helpers she resem¬
bles Mrs Rabbit assisted by
Flopsy and Mopsy. Cotton¬

tail was played by John
WhittmgdaJe, 3fT (CCokbes-
ter S & Maidon) who hoped
Mrs Rabbit shared his views
on the evils of drugs and
would never legalise soft
drugs, like the Liberals.

fan this realty be the John
Whittingdale who stood with
me at the Lyceum. 15 years ‘
ago. balancing our pints of
lager and roaring our sup¬
port for the punk groups 999
and StiffUttle Fingers, astae
audience pogo-danced and
shook fists in unison to foe.-
strains of Police Oppression!!

her on Sunday night-"

Mr Garbutt. an electrician
for British Sled, was on a
tour to watch American foot¬
ball games. Gary Flounders,
who played rugby with Mr
Garbutt in Hartlepool said:
"Ian was a great dob player
bat in recent years he had
become involved in Ameri¬
can footinlL He went nearly
every year to America to
wateh some games.”

At Mr Paimaris home last
night relatives were gather¬
ing to his wife. One neigh¬
bour said: "Jo was a very
charming man. Hie news
came as a devastating shock."

Flight 4184 was the fifth
journey the nine-month old
aircraft had made yesterday
and the second flown by the
crew. They had left Indianap¬
olis an hour late because of a
build up of traffic at Chicago.

The cradi will once more
focus attention on the safety
of commuter airlines in the
United States where the acci¬
dent rate is twice as high as
among major airlines.

Shephard sets up
new nursery team

A task force is bang set up to implement the 'Prime
Minister ’ll mmmttmenr to provide nursery education for ail
four-year-olds. Gillian Shephard, the Education Secretary
a nnou n ced yesterday. Mrs Shephard said a t e a m of her
depar tment officials would consult widely to develop {dans
for the expansion of preschool education.

The derision indicates the difficulties facing Mrs
Shephard as die attempts to implement Mr Major's "cast-
iron" co mmitm ent made at last month’s Conservative Party
conference. The National Union of Teachers has estim ated it
would cost alm ost £400 million to provide nursery classes
for the273,000 wn plarpd four-year-olds. Education ministers
are anxious that the Treasury may require the extra cash to
be found from the department's own budget

Peace line gates open

N ationalists and Unionists yesterday welcomed the opening
of security gates along the most prominent “peace lme” in.
Belfast The gates at i-anarit Way, which separate the
P rotesta nt Shankill area from the Roman Cafiiofic
Springfield area, win be open from dawn to dusk. Alex
Atwood, an SDLP councillor, said the opening was
symbolically important

Barbican chief may go

Baroness O Tafhain. the manag in g director of the Barbican
Centre, may not see out the three years of her contract (Datya
Alberge writes). The Corporation of London said yesterday
in a statement that it was looking for a deputy managing
director who "will be groomed to take over the post of
managing director in due course”.

Fans arrested in Spain

Seventeen British football fans were arrested yesterday in
Barcelona, where Manchester United play in the European
Cup tonight Police said 6,700 United fins were expected but
at least 2,000 had no ticket and same had nowhereto stay.
Those arrested are to appear in court on charges of causing
damage, creating a public scandal and fi ghting . '

Chief Justice’s warning

The Lord Chief Justice last
night highlighted the dan¬
gers of using psychological
profiling of offenders in
criminal trials and called for
urgent action on the use of
expat evidence. Lord Taylor
of Gosforth, right, deliver¬
ing the Lund Lecture to the
British Academy of Forensic
Science, a tt ac ked the Gov¬
ernment’s failure to bring in
proposals made last year fry
the Royal Commission on
Criminal Justice.

Boy has brain surgeiy

A leading American surgeon carried out a complex brain
operation yesterday on four-year-old Ashley Fowte, from
Northfleef, Kent, wffich is the boys onty hope of survival Dr
Fred Epstein said he was very pleased with Ashley’s
progress after he removed between 70 per cent and 9Sper
cent of a tumour at the New Yoik Medical Centre.

Shetland wreck boarded

Pollution experts yesterday boarded the Russian fighfiuhgv
ship Pionersk. wrecked off Shetland, as a two-mile oil stick
streamed from it An oil recovery vessel the Forth Explorer*
was heading for the scene. The Scottish Office and Trans¬
por t De partment agreed last night to consult on new ar¬
rangements for licensing ships operating in British waters.

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AM award-wimring shop
■WSer.. who.was .sacked
from her job with the Autorao-
«“* Assoaafion to make way
far a boss’s mistress, left an
industrial tribunal with a
£10,000 cheque from her for¬
mer employer yesterday. .

less than two hours after
Christine MB, 33, was ousted
from her job at Ihe M’s shop
m Ftynwuth. Paul Matthews,
the regional sales manager,
replaced her with Louise
Buxuwy, 27..

Anthony Dome, QC, coun¬
sel for Mrs Hill, said the
behaviour of Mr Matthews,
34, fr om Wedmore. Somerset,
gave a whole new meaning to
foe AA*?. calcfcphrase, "but j
know a man who does".

. He said jl was about time
the AA, which advertised itself
as foe fourth caring service,
started to treat loyal employ¬
ees “in the same way as they
claim to treat foe stranded
motorist". ’

Having opened the case to
the Exeter tribunal, foe AA
settled the matter after legal
discussion. Mr Donne told the
tribunal that foe AA admitted
Mrs H31 was unfairly dis¬
missed. had agreed to give her
a signed reference, and to pay
an extra .00,000 to reflect the
way she had been treated.

Mrs Hill, who earned near¬
ly £20,000 a year and is now
looking for a job. had already
received £31,500 in redundan¬
cy payment from the AA, for
whom she had worked for 12
years, he said. - - .

Earlier. Mr Donne had said
that Mrs HBL from Higher
Compton, Plymouth, was the
Plymouth shop manager for

Christine Hid, left, replaced by Louise B unne y

, more than seven years, in
charge of 16 staff. In 1992. she
won the senior shop manager
of the year award.

However,. Mr Matthews
was “foe very oppo si te of the
“very very nice man’ referred
to in the AA advertisments. He
is ambitious, arrogant, ag¬
gressive and seif-opmionaz-
ed," Mr Donne said.

Last year she applied for the
vacant post of area sales
manager, bat foe job wait to
Clive Martisan, a friend and

Matthews: not the
. “very, very nice man"

colleague of Mr Matthews.
This year, when the AA began
seeking voluntary redundan¬
cies. Mr Martison “purport¬
ed" to carry out a performance
assessment of Mrs HiO which
amounted to “dishonest
downgrading of foe most bla¬
tant land”. Mr Donne said.

In June this year. Sir Mat¬
thews handed her a letter
making her redundant Ihe
claim mat her post was redun¬
dant was a “blatant lie". Mr
Dame said. “Her position
was filled within two hours by
Mr Matthews's mistress, a
rather aptly named lady called
Miss Bunney ... who had
always coveted foe Plymouth
manager's job.”

Mrs Hill appealed to head
office at Basingstoke, but “she
might as well have spoken to a
brick wall".

The AA said last night that
foe compensation payment to
Mrs Hill recognised “a regret¬
table breach of its redundancy
procedures" and had nothing
to do with “wholly unsubstan¬
tiated” allegations against Mr
Matthews, which it had al¬
ready investigated.

Female bus drivers ‘harassed’

THREE female bus drivers
were sexually harassed by a
ticket inspector, an industrial
tribunal was told yesterday.

Lmrise Clark. 28,Jape Wes¬
ton. 2S ,and Helen SaadfaTZ^'
who are- seeking cohqpehsa-.
item for harassment claim 1
that the Cambridge bus firm
Cantons should have done

By A Staff Reporter

. more to pr otect them fay con¬
trolling the behaviour of Col¬
in Hafl. who allegedly touch¬
ed them on several occasions.
\ Miss Clark, a driver for five
- years, said rite .was sickened
When Mr-Had once grabbed
.Berm “a bear hug" as she was
about to jump off her bus.
“He earned me off with one

arm around my back and the
other around my bottom.” she
told the hearing in Bury St
Edmunds. Suffolk.

Miss Oaric told the tribunal
had fWiHpri to complain
about his behaviour after
.Miss Weston told bershe had
also been touched. The hear¬
ing, continues. .

Los Angeles
gives warm
welcome
to ‘Prince
Charming’

From Giles Whittell

IN LOS ANGELES

ANGELA lansbury, the vet¬
eran English-born actress,
led a chorus of approval for
foe Prince of Wales after
reeerving a CBE from him
on his first evening in Los
Angeles. Lauding the Prince
for his interest in “the com¬
mon man" foe 69-year-old
star of foe television series
Murder She Wrote said:
“My grandfather would have
approved."

Whether George Lans-
bnry, leader of foe labour
Party from 1931 to 1935,
would have approved of the
four-jaguar motorcade foal
swept foe Prince from the
airport to his first official
engagement behind a pha¬
lanx of motorcycle outriders
is open to question, but such
displays are more admired
than envied in California,
and foe start of foe five-day
royal visit was being seen
yesterday as a modest but
welcome public relations
coup.

“Charming." “down to
earth", and “misunder¬
stood". were among initial
impressions of the Prince
offered by city leaders invited
to meet him at a reception
preceding the private investi¬
ture ceremony at foe home of
Merrick Baker-Bales, the
British consul-general, on
Monday nigbL
Talk of foe Prince’s mar¬
riage, as revealed in Jona¬
than Dimbteby*s biography
which went on sale in Britain
yesterday, was strictly sotto
voce as be chatted with 150
guests whose lapel badges
reflected the two themes of
foe trip: meeting those in¬
volved with rebuilding South
Central Los Angeles since foe
1992 riots and supporting the
(wn-monfo UKJIA arts festi¬
val now in progress.

In America, rumours that
tickets to foe two UK/LA
events being attended by foe
Prince had failed to sell out
were strenuously denied by
festival organisers. The
Prince himself nevertheless
seemed anxious about atten¬
dance at tonight’s Royal
Shakespeare Company per¬
formance of Henry VI Part 3

Americans who met the Prince of Wales described him as “misunderstood"

in foe suburb of Cerritos. “I
hope alJ for tickets have been
sold because it's rather an
obscure play," he told a
former mayor of Cerritos.
The mayor assured the
Prince foal foe performance
was "the hottest ticket in
town".

In stark contrast to the
meagre public attendance at
many of foe Prince’s engage¬
ment at home, overflow
crowds were expected for last
night’s world pr e m i er e of
Mary Shelley’s Franken¬
stein at the Odeon cinema oa
Avenue of the Stars, near

Beverly Hills. An American
reporter who suggested that
Angelenos were only “mildly
interested” in the royal visit
was shouted down by 14
women parking attendants
at the consul-general's resi¬
dence. “That’s because you
are a man." said 35-year old
Michelle Dygutowicz. “He’s
misunderstood and misrep¬
resented. I have a special
place in my heart for him."
□ London bookshops re¬
ported brisk sales yesterday
of The Prince of Wales A
Biography, Mr Dimblefay’s
600-page book.

Angela Lansbury
received the CBE

Aids plot
denied by
man on
blackmail
charge

Eh’ Catherine Milton

TWO blackmailers threatened
to contaminate supermarket
food with the Aids virus if they
were not paid £12 million, the
Old Bailey heard yesterday.

The men said that infected
fluid would be injected into
prepared food if their de¬
mands were not met. Bernard
Phelvin said for the
prosecution.

But the attempted extortion
was thwarted by a police
undercover operation. Offi¬
cers. posing as representatives
from Sainsbury. Safeway and
Tesco. contacted the men be¬
hind the plot, secretly taped
conversations with them and
finally arrested them.

Alexander Taylor. 52. of
Yeovil. Somerset denies con¬
spiracy to blackmail, but the
jury was told that Michael
Norman, 52, of Wreningham.
Norfolk, who was not before
the court, had admitted the
offence. The court was told
that Mr Taylor did not deny
that he was involved, but says
that he had no idea he was
party to blackmail.

Mr Phelvin said both men
were behind letters sent to the
three supermarket firms in
January this year. The letters
demanded that the retailers
pay a “tax" to support the
small shops and businesses
struggling to compete against
them.

The letter said: “There are a
small number of our members
who are tested HIV positive.
We can have the supply of
infected fluid whenever and
we can deliver this to the
produce in your store.”

The letters, which claimed
to be from a group called
Action in the Community,
threatened to contaminate
products and then alert the
media unless the money was
paid into an account set up at a
National Westminster bank in
Kensington High Street The
blackmailers ordered that a
coded small ad should be put
in The Daily Telegraph con¬
firming this had been done.

Mr Phelvin said the conspir¬
acy was a “fairly sophisticated
and certainly unpleasant
scheme" involving menaces of
“a particularly unpleasant
and sinister kind". The case
continues.

Boy, 14, thought killing widow
‘would not cause much trouble’

By Stewart Tendler, crime correspondent

A MENTALLY 31 schodbpy
was ordered to be detaine d
indefinitely yesterday for a
random attack on. an 85year-
ofcl widow as she walked to
church in a Dorset town.

Winchester Crown . Court
wastoklfoalTbyffisSavfl]e,of
Wirabome, died in March
because the 14-year-old boy
thought that lolling her would
not cause much trouble. He
went up behind Mrs SaviBe
and stabbed her. then wait
home and put foe knife back
in a kitchen drawer. He was
arrested foal day after his
parents became suspidoas.

Yesterday the boy denied
murdering Mrs Savflle. The
prosecution accepted his plea
of guilty to manslaughter cm

foe grounds of diminished
responsibility. Mr Justice
Morison ordered that foe bay.
who was 13 at foe time, be
detained indefinitely. He said
foe boy should serve a mini¬
mum of eight years....

He told the boy: “I want to
make it dear that you wiQ
never be released untfl you are
no longer a danger to foe
public. I believe you are a
considerable and serious risk
to members of foe public,
particularly elderly women
and young children.’’

. The judge said Mis SaviBe
died “simply because she hap¬
pened to be where you were
that day. She did not deserve
to die in that shocking way. I
accept without hesitation that

at foe time you pushed the
knife into her your mind was
substantially impaired."

John Spokes. QC, for the
prosecution, said: "It appears
he approached her from be¬
hind and chose an elderly
lady, not to rob her, not
because he knew her. not for
any reason that can be readily
understood, but because of her
age it was thought by the
defendant that killing her
would not cause much trou¬
ble." He said it was dear the
bay was suffering from Asp-
berger's syndrome, which has
similarities to autism. Days
before the attack he had been
seen by a psychiatrist

Later when interviewed by
psychiatrists, the boy told

them: “I was going down
there on the off-chance of
seeing an old lady and unfor¬
tunately there was one there. I
did not think the knife had
touched her. 1 did not think
she could have felt it — she
only realised when she saw
foe’knife. If she was walking
towards me it wouldn’t have
happened. I did not want to
hurt anyone."

Professor Digby Tanfurn
said that before the killing the
boy had developed a fascina¬
tion with horror stories, pro¬
fessional wrestling and lifts.
Dr Eileen Vizard, a specialist
in child psychiatry, said she
believed the boy needed to be
treated in secure accommoda¬
tion for at least 10 years.

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Old couple
died from
shock after
break-in

Bv Robin Young

A COUPLE who had been
married for 58 years died from
shock after discovering a
break-in at their borne, police
said yesterday. \

Maud Essay, 86, collapsed
after being told by her hus¬
band Philip. S3, on Monday
evening that a window had
been forced at their home in
Sparkbrook. Birmingham.
He called an ambulance, but
when it arrived the crew found
him dead in the living room.
Mrs Essery died in hospital.

The couple, who recently
had become great-grandpar¬
ents, had been broken into
three times before.

A neighbour. Harry Wilson,
said: “They used to be so out¬
going but ova foe last 18
months they became very
poorly and i blame foe bur¬
glaries for that. It was difficult
to check up on old folk like the
Essays because they were
afraid to open their door to
you, even in broad daylight”
Detective Inspector Bob Ash
said: “I am satisfied that foe
shock of discovering the
break-in led to their deaths.”

Fake coffee
salesman
jailed for
six months

By A Staff Reporter

A MAN who made E40.000 by
selling counterfeit Maxwell
House coffee from the boot of
his Rolls-Royce was jailed for
six months yesterday.

David McKay, 45. filled
catering-size tins with a home¬
made blend of inferior Brazil¬
ian coffee and chicory and
then stuck on fake Maxwell
House labels. He sold foe tins
to market traders and lorry
drivers who distributed it as
far afield as France and
Greece, Oxford Crown Court
wastold.

Nigd Daly, for the prosecu¬
tion, raid the scam came to
light when customers com¬
plained about the “disgust¬
ing" beverage to Kraft Jacob
Suchard. the manufacturer of
Maxwell House, and to trad¬
ing standards officers.

McKay had previously
duped customers with a fake
brand of Nescafe and netted
£3300 a week heftier Nestis
took out an injunrtion fo ^op
him. McKay, of Watford,.
Hertfordshire, admitted con-''
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MPs demand revival of
high street shopping

JOHN POTT ER

By Arthur Leathley and Jonathan Prynn

THE era of the giant out-of-
lown retail centre must end to
save Britain’s high street
“shopping heritage". MPs
said yesterday. In a strongly
worded Commons report,
ministers were roundly criti¬
cised for allowing the spread
of huge shopping centres in
spite of a decade of protest
from retailers and shoppers.

The Commons Environ¬
ment Select Committee de¬
manded a two-pronged
campaign to revitalise high
streets by making them more
attractive and imposing strict¬
er planning controls on retail
giants. The MPs pressed for
an end to confusion over
planning rules, which both
encourage and discourage car
parking in town centres.

John Cummer, the Environ¬
ment Secretary, is expected to
respond by pressing local
authorities to increase the
amount of town-centre park¬
ing for shoppers. The cross-
party committee wants better
and more secure town-centre
parking to help high streets to
compete with out-of-town fa¬
cilities. Ministers are also
called on to change planning

guidance to ensure that
superstores are built in or on
the edge of town centres.

The MPs dismissed as
"baseless" the claims made by
superstores that town-centre
development would lead to
higher carbon dioxide emis¬
sions by cars. A detailed
review of shopping patterns
and their environmental effect
was needed in the absence of
reliable research, the MPs
'said.

The recommendations were
welcomed by environmental-

Simons: “Customers
prefer high streets"

ists, consumer organisations
and the Government, which
has announced its intention to
reverse the growth in out-of-
town shopping and to make
people less dependent on cars.

Somerfield, one of the lead¬
ing food retailers, accused the
MPs of “shutting the garage
doors after the Volvo has
bolted" because of the large
number of out-of-town shop¬
ping centres that already had
planning permission.

Evidence to the committee
pointed out that out-of-town
centres made shopping diffi¬
cult for those without cars and
the MPs pressed for all shop¬
pers to have access "to a wide
range and choice of conve¬
nient and attractive shopping
facilities".

The committee said: “Re¬
gardless of what has hap¬
pened in the past, the task now
at hand is to regenerate and
sustain the nation's shopping
heritage, to ensure that future
retail change takes place with¬
in a clear, consistent and
strategic framework and to
make shopping facilities avail¬
able to alL"

Mr Gummer said: “When I

first proposed that we had to
ensure town centres remained
the focus of town life, particu¬
larly shopping, the pundits
proclaimed that the public
were not with us. Now we
have the vindication of wide¬
spread support from Parlia¬
ment and the public."

David Simons, chief execu¬
tive of Somerfield. which owns
the Gateway chain that is
based mainly in town centres,
said: “For social, emotional
and practical reasons, the
millions of ordinary people
who are our customers prefer
shopping on high streets and
town centres to out-of-town
superstores."

The Chic Trust, which cam¬
paigns for die revitalisation of
town centres, said the report
was “excellent and timely".
No more out-of-town develop¬
ments should be allowed.

Michael Meacher. the shad¬
ow Transport Secretary, said
die report showed many of die
country’s transport problems
stemmed from the Govern¬
ment's over-reliance on mar¬
ket forces, which had “allowed
a developers' free for all on
out-of-town sites".

Merry Hffi shopping centre near Dudley, West Midlands. The town has lost 70 per cent of its trade to the centre

Tesco defends out-of-town centres

By Robin Young

TESCO defended the popularity of out-
oftown superstores last night after the
critical report by MPs.

The company has built SO such stores
in the past ten years. A spokesman said
they were “essential for those carrying
heavy shopping, or have young children.
The average weekly family shopping at
Tesco weighs 800) and fills six bags."
Superstores and out-oftnwn shopping

centres, now out of favour with politi¬
cians an *t planners, sprang np all over
B ritain in die past two decades, often
bli ghting h aiHWanai high streets. Wel¬
comed as an answer to congestion in
town centres, edgeof-town superstores
were bring built at a rate of SO a year
before John Gmnmer, die Environment
Secretary, announced a reversal in
government polity in February.

Research by Verdict the retail analyst
showed earlier this year that a quarter of

all retail sales were from out-of-town
locations; in 1980 the proportion was 5
per cent. Many faigtestrect shops bad
dosed down. Those remaining were
often taken on short leases by charities
or discount traders.

However, out-of-town development
had slowed markedly before the shift in
government policy. Leading food reta3-
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in danger of building more superstores
thaw the public wanted.

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War of the Roses
battlefield to be
a housing estate

By Alan Hamilton

A PROPOSED register of
historic battlefields drawn up
by English Heritage has failed
to prevent the go-ahead for a
housing development on one
of the most important sites of
the Wars of the Roses.

John Gummer, the Environ¬
ment Secretary, has given
approval for 284 houses to be
built by Bovis on a meadow at
Tewkesbury. Gloucestershire,
where the forces of Edward IV
and Margaret of Anjou met in
Moody conflict in 1471. close to
the town's medieval abbey.
The field is one of 41 listed on
the English Heritage register.

Proposed • development : <of ’
the site was the subject of a
planning inquiry in M9L In an
interim judgment last year,
tire Secretary .of ..State_axR..
nounced that he was minded
to grant approval for the
homes, which are to be built
cxi the south side of the town in
an area known as Margaret’s
Camp. The site is close to the
remains of a medieval manor
house, an ancient monument

The battlefield register,
launched in September as a
provisional list, is out for
consultation with local au¬
thorities and other interested
bodies. In his ruling. Mr

Tewkesbury Abbey, where284 homes will be baOt

Poet’s boots fetch £650

THE son of the war poet
Siegfried Sassoon sold off the
family heirlooms yesterday —
including his father's: boots—
to pay his crippling Lloyd's
debts.

George Sassoon. 59, could
not bear to watch as : bidding
opened for Sassoon’s hobnail
boots, which he wore in the
trendies during the First
World War. Mr Sassoon left
die room as Sue Cox, an
historian, successfully bid

£650 for the battered hob¬
nails, one of 560 prized pos¬
sessions under the hammer.
-But after- the sale raised
£340.000..he said: “This
should keep Lloyd's at bay for
a bit" •' .

A picture painted by Sieg¬
fried's friend : William Rob¬
erts, depicting infantrymen
alongside**'french, fetched
£34,000while the poet’s grand
piana engraved with the ini¬
tials SS. was sold for £2,000.

Gummer said that he had
given the register little weight
in his derision, as it was still
liable to revision.

English Heritage said yes¬
terday that it had been unable
to use the battlefield register at
the inquiry as evidence
against development as it had
not then been drawn up.

Objectors to the develop¬
ment expressed disappoint¬
ment that F.nglish Heritage
had not been more effective in
preventing planning approv¬
al. Robert GDlespie, a Swin¬
don planning consultant who
has fought the scheme, said;
•The 'Secretary of State’s da£ ~
sion is premature, as tfae-
consultaifon process an the
battlefield register iy into®--
plede.lt could .well be that he
has predetermined the out- '
come of that process. He is
hiding behind procedures
rather than addressing the
merits of a battlefield ag&nst -
a housing proposal"

During die battle the York¬
ist forces of King Edward
slaughtered some 2,000'Lan-
castrians under Margaret, -
wife of the deposed Henry VL
Many traces of the battle
remain, mHuHmg memorials
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■ playwright wlh> died'earlier .
dns 'yK gy could. wjriD. have
"WitJHi 'his memorial
swyfcs^ yesterday, . ,lending
titoi'eKgioas ana the secular
wtfU an ambfgtHiy yeminis-
«nt ttf-Jns am. controversial-
but vddejy adinired work for
the small screen..

• Banafly, friends,- actors and
television esecatrves tilled St :
James's Church. Ha^cfiHy,

churdi service and part cm-
cert party, the. dogy jxo-\
c es s tri, 6>_- a. quintet ■ jhat~
properiy belonged to a Locar¬
no ballroom of .the 199Q&
playing the theme from one of ■
Potters most Celeb rated winl ,
Pennies From Heaven.

rfttter. as m all things, did
not,accept religion at its See
value.'' He was ,an Irritant to
foosewho werecBoafttttaMein
t h e ir beliefs, and just as modi
of an' irritant to die unbeliev¬
ing. the. Rev Donald Jteeves. .
vicar of St Jameses, ’add.. The
playwright regarded religion ;
as ooe. of life’s wounds rather

Roy Hudd and Colza WeDaad after die service

The readings were fro m
potters own work. Alan
Rickman read from fag-auto- <
biographical Mesmer, Cheryl
Campbell and Freddie . fanes
re-enacted a scene fr om Pert-

mes From Heaven, and the
tefevisiqp executives . Michad
Grade and Alan Yentob. as¬
sisted, by Kariftt Trodd, -tfae
producer with wham Rarer
fell out. performed another
scene from the same, with Mr
Trodd taking the part of the
sheet music salesman.

Mr Trodd recalled tihat at
one of their last meetings.
Pttoer confessed to one real
fear of death— “and that is
you might get asked to speak
at my memorial service”. £ven
the hymns had Potter astocia-
tions. Immortal, Invisible
God Only Wise he recalled
from his chapel upbringing in
die Forest Of D^n, and-die

Drug firms Ruling puts
asked not to solicitors’
use foetuses bills under
for vaccines spotlight

By Jeremy Laurancs ..

HEALTH SERVICES \
CORRESPONDENT '!. .

THE Chief Medical Officer is
to write to pfiarinacmtical
companies asking them to
e^rfore ways of making the
combined'meariesand robeBa
vaccine that does not.invdve.
using aborted foet u se s- .

The Health D ep art ment dis-
dosed die move afro- Dr
Kometfa Caiman met tcB-
gious leaders canconed over
• use of ite vaccme because of
erirical objections to abortion.
Two Roman Catholic board-
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The Department of-Hcaldi..
said Dr Cabnmfs meeting
with Roman Catholic. Mtoa-
lim. Hindu, JeodA and Evarv
geticai religious leaders
produced “general agreemen t
on dte value of continuing
driidhood im nn inisatk n" .

A department stasement
said those at d« meefo«
would be issuing advice to
their members shortly on the
eddcal issues raised. How¬
ever. a spokesman said that
the development of new vac¬
crues was a matter for phar-
ma cttffical a wgames.: ■

/ By Frances Gibs .

LEGAL CORRESPONDENT

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ciaries of estates where the
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■ But under other changes.

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aimed at zedndng the scope
far disagreement between so¬
licitors and diems/

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words to Panys Jerusalem
are so obfuscatory that they
might have been by Potter
rather than Blake.

But there is nothing ambig¬
uous about the words of Roll
Along Prairie Moon, used in
Pennies From Heaven, played
in this instance on die organ
and stopped halfway through
by the vicar with an admon¬
ishment in true music-hall
style that the audience could
do better.

Memorial services are
about nostalgia, an emotion
that Potter appeared to tackle
in Blue Remembered Hills,
but which he stood on its head.
His daughter Sarah. 33. said

in an address; “Nostalgia is a
cheap and second-rate emo¬
tion tar too readily at beckon."
And, lest die congregation,
should be tempted to wallow
in a life past, she added: u My
fathers work will come again,
and all the happy highways
where he went: he never chose
the low road.”

Literalness is dearly too
cheap and second-rate for the
Potter family but as the man
himself once wrote, catch-
phrases and aphorisms were
rarely the work of honest men.

Mehyn Bragg read from
Potters first work. The Glit¬
tering Coffin, written when he
was at New College, Oxford-
lmelda Staunton sang Roses
Of Picardy, and Peter Jeffrey
read words on death by Haz-
lirt “To die is only to be as we
were before we were bom."

Among the congregation
were the writers mother Mar¬
garet Potter. 83. his sister June
Thomas; and his other child¬
ren Robert and Jane. Yester¬
day was All Saints' Day. a
time for remembering those
who have, impressed or
cheered us. The service dosed
with a final prayer for his wife
Margaret Potter, who im¬
pressed and cheered foe writer
for much of his life, and who
died nine days before him.

Memorial service, page 20

Alan Rickman and Sarah Potter, the playwright’s daughter, at St James’s Church

TGWU staff
to strike
over 3.5%
pay offer

By Phiup Bassett
INDUSTRIAL EDITOR

STAFF of the Transport and
General Workers’ Union are
to strike tomorrow over pay.

Leaders of the TGWU are
trying to limit their embar¬
rassment by closing all foe
union's offices for foe day.
including its London head¬
quarters. Transport House.
Strikers are unlikely to picket
foe dosed offices of foe union.

More than 900 secretaries,
cleaners, researchers, media
officers, clerical and legal
workers, employed by the
TGWU and all members of
foe union, will go on strike
after rejecting a pay offer
worth 3 to 3.5 per cent after a
claim for a "substantial" rise.

Danny Bryan, foe union^s
national officer who negoti¬
ates on behalf of staff, said he
regretted the strike but that it
reflected anger thar foe union
had not properly recognised
the contribution made by staff
in the last few difficult years.

Bill Morris. TGWU general
secretary, said the offer was
higher than inflation and
greater than many of foe un¬
ion’s members had received.

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Masons to vote on
£20m sale of
historic hospital

LEADERS of Britain's Free¬
masons will meet next month
to decide whether to sever a
60-year link with the Royal
Masonic Hospital in London.

The independent hospital,
which has been losing £2
million a year, could be sold
on the open market for up to
£20 million. But the sale can
be sanctioned only if 75 per
cent of the hospital’s “gover¬
nors” — innumerable Masons
who have contributed at least
£10.50 towards its upkeep —
vote to wind up the registered
charity that runs the hospital.

The hospital, which is set in
eight acres of ground at Ham¬
mersmith, was opened in 1933
by George V. It was intended
as a centre for sick Masons
but only 10 per cent of the fees
at the 200-bed hospital are
derived from the movement.

The financial consultants
Coopers & Lybrand were sent
into the hospital by the Chari¬
ty Commissioners earlier this
year to draw up a rescue plan.
Malcolm London, of Coopers

ByAaidrew Pierce

& Lybrand, who was appoint¬
ed receiver and manager, has
cut 60 jobs and the hospital
has moved bade into the black.

A meeting will be held at
Wembley Conference Centre
on December 5 to which the
governors of the hospital have
been invited.

The last time the proposal
was put to a vote in 1983 it was
rejected. A committee chaired
by Lord Justice Drake had
recommended the sale of the
hospital bur thousands of gov¬
ernors of the hospital rejected
the proposal.

In 1991. after another dis¬
pute about the constitution of
the hospital, the Duke of Kent
and Prince Michael of Kent
resigned as president and vice-
president.

Elaine Warburton, the hos¬
pital's director of marketing,
stud: “If the charity is dis¬
solved. the hospital will have a
viable future. We will be able
to go ahead and market it at
home and abroad. There is
obviously a great sentimental

bond between some of the
Masons and the hospital- A
hard-core contingent wants
the link to stay."

Commander Michael
Higham, grand secretary of
the Freemasons, said; “Many
Freemasons are extremely
fond of the idea of the hospital
But many also see that if it is
not doing the job it was
designed for. there is an
argument that die charity
should be wound up and die
money applied to something
else.”

It is thought the hospital,
which includes Grade n listed
buildings, could fetch between
£15 million and £20 million. If
the vote is carried, a further
meeting will be held in April at
which a special committee
would report on what to do
with the proceeds of die sale.
The hospital would also have
to be renamed.

If the vote is lost the matter
will be referred to the High
Court There are more than
300.000 Masons in Britain.

THE TIMES WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 21994

Consultants*
tell trust
director
to resign

Charity for doctors
in trouble faces
financial shortfall

By Andrew Pierce

Sir Anthony: “Doctors should be aware of pitfalls*'

THE Royal Medical Benevo¬
lent JPnnd. founded in 1836 to
aid doctors who have fallen
on hard times, faces a
£200,000 deficit by the end of
the seat financial year.

Sir Anthony Dawson, phy¬
sician to the Queen from 1982
until last year, has laid part
of the Marne for the extra
burden faced by the charity
on Ae stress created by the
Government's health re¬
forms. The British Medical
Association died the extra
workload on doctors as the
principal factor for the drain
on the charity.

In the first ri ght months of
the year the fhnd handed out
nearly £500,000 compared
with £400,000 for the same
period last year. Legacies are
no longer sufficient to cover
the deficit

Sir Anthony, a new vice-
chairman of the charity who
has taken responsibility for
fundraising, issued an ar¬
gent call for help from col¬
leagues. “Doctors should be
aware more than anyone of
die pitfalls in medical life,”

he said- “A tot of doctors are
not good business m anager s.
They do not go into the
profession to become a
businessman."

The fond is the only one
thstt provides continuous fi¬
nancial help to doctors and
their dependents. It provides
emergency payments and
gives short-term support , to
cover school fees.

Sir Anthony said he was

not asking the public to help.

“The medical profession is
wealthy enough.” he said.
“As professional people doc¬
tors should be prepared to
covenant op to £100. It is vital
that we review all possible
resources to enable ns to do
our work as we must"

There are about 100,000
registered doctors in the
country and only 10 per cent
are members. The BMA.
which r e pres ents doctors
working in the health ser¬
vice, saui “In the last few
years doctors’ workload has
increased considerably and
perhaps attention to person¬
al finances has suffered.”

By Jeremy Lauramce
HEALTH SERVICES -

correspondent -

CONSULTANTS at an NHS ‘ ‘ ‘
trust hospital are demanding
foe resignation of toe medical
director after be told a special¬
ist being made r edu n d ant to -
dear Ms desk in three horns.

A row about the manage¬
ment style of Burnley Health
Care NHS TVust has bom
simmering for over a year.
This week, the consultants
said that if the medical dnec- 1
tor. Dr Sam Pickens; did not
resign in 48 hours they would
pnes a vote of no-confidence in
him. They say he has “forfeit¬
ed the trust of his col le ag ue s
and the medical advisozyaan-
mittee” in backing ’the sum- j
mary dismissal oflan Maha- ■
dy, a consultant gynaeccdopst.

Mr Mahady was made re¬
dundant in September be¬
cause the trust said it did not
have enough contracts to em-
ploy four gynaecologists. "•

Mr Mahadjys. coDeagues
said he had strangy opposed
trust status for thehospitaL.
The trust said there would be
an inquiry into his dismissal.

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tion. How should he cantmue?
Answer I have put in this
elementary hand as a filter for
my Thursday articles. If you
find it difficult, your game
may need a little coaching.

As always, the first stage in
deciding how to play a hand is
to count up your tricks. On
this hand South has eight
tricks on top.

It is a simple matter to

develop a ninth by leading low
to foe ten of spades. The trap is
to try foe diamonds first If
you do that West wiD have
enough tricks to beat -foe
contract when he gets in with

D^^fosday*s articles 1 will
be running a refresher course.
I hope to remind those who
have forgotten, or never un¬
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think about bridge. My first
reminder-win be on how
strong do you have to be to
open foe bidding, and what is
the reasoning behind it

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CHESS CORRESPONDENT

Salov’s win

Valery Salov, foe Russian
grandmaster, scored a tri¬
umph in the Sicilian Defence
thematic tournament in Bue¬
nos Aires, finishing ahead of
many of foe strongest players
of the day including
Viswanathan Anand ( India) ,
the Fide champion Anatoly
Karpov (Russia), Judit Polgar
(Hungary), Alexer Shirov (Lat¬
via) and Gala Kamsky, Ameri¬
ca's top player. In foe
following game, Salov dis¬
patches tbe world ranked
number five player VassOy
Ivanchuk.

While: Valery Salov
Blade Vassily Ivanchuk

15 Ncd5 Nxd5

16 NxdS Bxb2

17 Rxb2 84

18 twa4 Nc6

19 NbB .. QcT7

20 Nd5 Qc8

21 Qd2 Ne5

22 Rb4 Ebca4

23 OO Bc6

24 Ral NU7

25 84 CkJ8

26 Qh6 86

27 Ne3 06 ■

28 Rett 05

29 Qxl6 NxJB

30 FbocJB FteaB

31 85 8*02

32 Rxb6 Rxb6

33 Kxg2 . Nd7 ..

34 No4 Rc6

35 f4. g*M-

36 0*14 Nc5

37 NdB

Back lost on time

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Buenos Aires, October 1994

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Pupils must
resit 11-plus
after heads
leak papers

By Nicholas Watt, treiand correspondent

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MORE than 18.000 children
in Northern Ireland will have
to resit their 11 -plus tests after
pupils at four sdiools saw the
papers before sitting their
examinations.

Michael Ancram. the Nor¬
thern Ireland education minis¬
ter. said the decision was the
fairest way of resolving the
problem which he blamed on
a “grave error of judgment" by
one school principal.

The minister scrapped the
test yesterday after teachers at
four schools inadvertently
used the paper for a trial run
before pupils sat the real
examination last month. The
schools were handed the
paper after a principal, who
had been asked by the North¬
ern Ireland Office's education
department to comment on the
questions, passed the papers
to another head teacher.

Mr Ancram. who did not
name the two principals, said:
“It would appear that the per¬
son who was shown the pa¬
pers did not appreciate the
status of the documents, and
believed thar the questions
were merely examples. Conse¬
quently. the second person felt
free to copy the papers and to
make available further copies
to other schools as examples of
practical materials." Up to a

Ancram: “Very angry”
at principals'blunder

hundred pupils saw the paper,
and there were reports that
other schools obtained copies.

The minister said he would
not be taking action against
the two principals because he
was satisfied there had been
no malicious intent. But he
added: "1 believe that a grave
error of judgment has been
made. I am very angry."

Mr Ancram said that the
blunder had given a small, but
unquantifiable, number of pu¬
pils an unfair advantage. All
18,400 pupils taking the II-
phis in Northern Ireland
would therefore resit the ex¬
amination on December 7. A
second rest on November 25 is
also to be rewritten.

The minister said in a letter
to parents yesterday: "I wish
to reiterate my regret for the
extra pressure that has been
put on your child and my
anger at what has occurred...
In the interests of fairness no
other course is open to me."

Parents and teachers, who
were furious with the two
principals for leaking the ex¬
amination. said they feared
that children would be unset¬
tled by having to resit tests.
Gordon Andrews, of the Par¬
ents Action Group for Educ¬
ation. said: “They are going to
have to sit three tests instead
of the two they were expecting.
This will put even more stress
and strain on them."

David Allen, of the North¬
ern Ireland Teachers' Council,
said the principals should be
disciplined. "I regard it as
gross misconduct. They are a
discredit to the teaching pro¬
fession. They should be dis¬
missed." The National Asso¬
ciation of Schoolmasters and
Union of Women Teachers
said Mr Ancram had made i
the only fair decision.

Pupils sit the Il-plus tests for
entry to grammar schools.
They normally sit two main .
tests in the autumn term.

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Foxhunts welcome new law against saboteurs

By Marianne Curphey

THE foxhunting season officially
opened yesterday with sportsmen
claiming (he new C riminal Justice
Bill would “put an end to the hunt
saboteurs’ reign of intimidation".

The British Field Sports Society
said the legislation, which is about
to be enacted, would allow groups
to hunt without obstruction and

violence. Alastair Jackson, of the
society, said: "We have lobbied
long and hard for this law and we
are pleased with the result
“Previously, police have been
unable to intervene even if protest¬
ers were wearing balaclavas and
holding sticks and dearly trying to
intimidate us. They to commit
an offence before they would be
removed. The new law will mean

(hat many hunts will no longer
need stewards to keep people off
private land."

Clause 63 of the Bill makes it an
offence fora trespasser In the open
air or a noirtrespasser on a
highway to attempt to disrupt or
obstruct an activity taking place in
the open air.

Mr Jackson conceded that hunts¬
men sometimes did hit out at

saboteurs, but “only nnder extreme
provocation" He said hunting was
“more popular than at any time in
history" after a campaign last year.

However, the League Against
Cruel Sports says that cadi of the
country's 200 hunts attracted only
about three new members, while
4.000 people joined the anti-hunt¬
ing lobby.

Kevin Saunders, the league's

spokesman, said: “We are not in¬
volved in the actions of saboteurs
and have always believed laws pro¬
vided adequate protection against
assault" The new Act would drive
extremists underground, he said.

"The real issue is fee auehy of
fee sport and although fee season:
isnow officially open, hounds have
been hunting fox cubs sauce early
August”

Laura Davies cash unspent I BT brings back letter dials

ABOUT £300.000 collected to
help Laura Davies, the five-
year-old who died after multi¬
ple transplant operations in
America, remains unspent a
year after her death.

Billy Reay. a publican who
launched the Laura Davies
appeal with his wife Gail from
their pub in Eccles, Greater
Manchester, said yesterday: “I
am angry and upset that
nothing has been done with

By Nigel Hawkes

the money. It’S really annoy¬
ing. All my customers keep
asking what’s happened to it
and f have to keep telling them
we’ve got no say in iL"

The fund raised more than
£1 million and enabled Laura
to travel to Pittsburgh for two
multiple transplants. Since
she died, the appeal hind has
paid for a £600 plaque in her
memory at Ecries Library, but
the rest of the money remains

unspent. The cash is in the
hands of Salford and Trafford
Health Authority, which
helped to run the appeal.

Dr lan Greatorex. chief
executive of the authority,
said: “We have to fulfil our
public responsibility, and we
will But it has taken time,
because of the reorganisation
of the authority and because
we had to be sure that we had
paid all Laura’s bills."

LETTERS are returning to
telephone numbers in a move
that has less to do with any
nostalgia for Scotland Yard's
Whitehall 1212 than with can¬
ny commercialism.

After seeing the Driver and
Vehicle Licensing Agency
milk money out of selling
prized personal number
plates. British Telecom has
found more than 100 com¬
panies willing to pay £ 1.200 a

By A Staff Reporter

year for personalised tele¬
phone numbers. The num¬
bers, when translated into
letters, spell fee company’s
name or slogan.

The success of fee venture
depends on callers having
letters on their phone dials,
something BT abandoned 15
years ago. But the company is
bringing them back and new
phones now bear the letters
ABC for 2, DEF for 3, and so

on. BTs fee far sp ecial letter '
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instead of fee usual £SL

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Tate Gallery staff among Antony Gormley’s sculptures, “Testing a World View”, iron casts that the artist has modelled on his own body

Tate unveils entries for Turner Prize

By Our Arts
Correspondent

SCULPTURES, paintings
and a video by the four
artists shortlisted for the 1994
Tamer Prize will be unveiled
today at the Tate Gallery.
WflHe Doherty, Peter Doig,
Antony Gormky and Shir*
azeb Houshiaiy axe compet¬
ing for a £20,000 prize.

The winner win be an¬
nounced on November 22.
Mr Doherty will be showing
two 30-minute films of a
night-tune ear journey and
the view from a stationary
car. The artist said dial his
soundtrack, in which a man
imagines being both victim
and perpetr a tor of a violent
terrorist act was about
“anxiety, fear and paranoia”.

Mr Doig is showing a
series of paintings inspired

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Finalists for the Turner Prize: Peter Doig. left, Antony Gormley, Shirazeh Houshiary and Willie Doherty

by housing blocks designed
by Le Corbusier.

Mr Gormley’s display in¬
cludes five iron casts of his
own body. He said: “1 don’t
see them as being mine. Once
out there, they become every¬
body. It is not about self¬

portraiture, but me using the
body as a dance might — as
an instrument.”

Ms Houshiary’s contribu¬
tion is a series of five lead
cubes that illustrate geomet¬
ric space and reflection. The
exhibition, which runs until

December 4. is likely to boost
attendance figures which last
Sunday broke the gallery’s
record. Within four horns,
the Tate had 19,468 visitors.
Its previous record, achieved
in February 1993. was fewer
than 15.000. Nicholas

Scrota, director of the Tate,
said: ‘These artists test our
resporises to the world that
surrounds us. Their work
enhances our perception and
makes us reflect on what it
means to be alive at the end
of the 20th century.”

Youth dies
after blood
is refused

A teenage Jehovah’s Witness
dial because he refused to
have a blood transfusion after
breaking a leg in a motorcycle
accident. Doctors wanted him
to have a transfusion so that
they could operate.

David Smith. 17. and his
family refused permission and
he died 12 hours later. His
parents, George and Pat
Smith, of Redcar. Cleveland,
refused ro talk about their
son's death. Middlesbrough
General Hospital said: “We do
not discuss individual cases
but a patient is allowed to
decline treatment"

Escaper injured

A remand prisoner aged 17
was seriously ill after falling
40ft from a motorway bridge
in an escape attempt. He
jumped from a slow-moving
prison van on the M32 in Bris¬
tol as he was being returned to
Horfield Prison.

Small sting

Police in the Operation Bum¬
blebee crackdown on burglary
arrived at a suspect's home to
find he was only 10. The boy
was taken with his parents to
Broadbury Road police sta¬
tion, Bristol, where he admit¬
ted two offences of burglary.

Case adjourned

Wyn Jones. 51. the former
Metropolitan Police assistant
commissioner accused of
stealing food and wine worth
£24. had his case adjourned in
his absence for three weeks at
Bow Street Magistrates’
Court.

Girl dies in fire

A girl aged four died in a fire
believed to have been caused
by a Hallowe'en lantern. Fire¬
fighters pulled Angela Dimery
from the living room of her
home in Plymouth but at¬
tempts to revive her failed.

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10 POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

Arise Sir Peter Preston,

__ THE TIMES WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 21994

saviour of the Tory party whips

P eter Preston, the editor of
The Guardian deserves a
knighthood in the next
round of honours for Fleet Street
editors (if there is one), "for services
to the Tory whips' office™. The
affair of the House of Commons
writing paper and the bogus fax
has given the whips an ideal
opportunity to distract attention
horn the central questions of the
conduct of MPs and appointments
to public bodies. The Labour
leadership bas consequently shift¬
ed its public attack to Post Office
privatisation and tax increases.
Whenever MPs are united in

furious indignation, it is time
to wonder what they are trying
to hide. The Tory whips rather
overdid their diversionary tactics
yesterday as former minister after
former minister jumped up at
Prime Minister's questions to de¬
nounce Mr Preston in vitriolic
terms.

The objections of MPs to the
letter and Mr Preston’s explana¬
tions are genuine and widely held,
as will be dear from this after¬

noon's debate — and are shared by
Labour leaders. Mr Preston'S tac¬
tics, contorted logic and bizarre
association with Mr Al-Fayed are
open to question. And nothing has
emerged in The Guardian or
elsewhere that should affect
Jonathan Aitken's ability to re¬
main as Chief Secretary to die
Treasury.

The issue is more me of propor¬
tion. The affair has excited die
Tories' hyperactive tendency, such
as Dame Jill Knight and Roger
Gale, who regard the media as
being as treasonable as Guy
Fawkes, and with similar inten¬

tions. The Tories' buffoon tenden¬
cy has been to the fore with the
boorish David Evans making one
of his all too-farailar crassly seif-
indulgent interventions citing his
wife’s views. If anyone is demean¬
ing the House of Commons, it is
the likes of Mr Evans, whose
vulgarity makes the populist Geof¬
frey Dickens seem like a fastidious
reduse.

The behaviour of The Guardian
over the Commons writing paper
is a secondary matter, however
questionable it may appear. Ask¬
ing the Privileges Committee to
investigate it, as the Commons will

certainly decide today, will as¬
suage MTS’feelings of outrage and
give some Tories a sense that they
are getting their own back on the
media. But Mr Preston's tactics
have enabled to the Tory whips to
steer public discussion into this
self-righteous cul de sac.

MPS delude themselves if they
believe, as some evidently da that
this is all that matters. The excesses
of some tabloids have given the
public little reason to respect the
press. But the public has little time
tor politicians either. According to
a Harris poll for ITN last week,
two-thirds of the public believe that

MPs’ standards have declined
severely since 1979 and a simflar
proportion think that MPs should
not be permitted to take any paid
employment other than their par¬
liamentary salary. ...

Parliament has to regain public
confidence. That requires tighten¬
ing up its rules over outside
interests, together with more open
monitoring of such proceduresid
self - regulatio n is to be mai nt ai n ed.
Parliament also has to show that it
can monitor the executive and hold
ministers to account

At present the Commons can
easily be bypassed and it is largely

irrelevant in discussing new Euro¬
pean proposals or Budget options.
The Shift last year to a unified
Budget combining tax and spend¬
ing measures has further reduced
the scope for par li a m e n tary debate
about the main choices on fiscal
policy.

These are all real priorities for
the Commons. Attacking The
Guardian is a largely irrelevant
si desh ow. Mr Preston'S approach
has made such scapegoating easi¬
er Many editors have done much
less for their knighthoods.

Peter Riddell

Benn’s threat casts
questions inquiry
into confusion

by Arthur Leathley, political correspondent

TONY BENN’S threat to re¬
port private meetings of the
Commons cash-for-questions
inquiry forced the Privileges
Committee to break up in
confusion last nighL

A meeting that was planned
to decide whether the inquiry
should be held in public was
dominated by Mr Berm's
warning, issued on Monday,
that he would publish his own
reports of proceedings held in
private.

David Tredinnick and Gra¬
ham Riddick, two Tory MPs
accused of being prepared to
accept £1.000 for asking Com¬
mons questions, were called
into the committee after wait¬
ing for nearly two hours to
give evidence.

The committee then ad¬
journed until next month to
deride on whether to meet in
private. Tony Newton, the
chairman, said in a statement:
The committee did not feel
able to interview the witnesses
today without giving them the
opportunity to consider and, if
neoessaiy. take advice, upon
the position created by Mr
Benn’s statement It will meet
at the earliest practicable time
to consider further how to
proceed.™

The committee's lengthy
private meeting continued a
day in which both sides were
determined to hold to their
respective lines over foe high-
profile investigation. Labour

MPS insisted that they would
not withdraw their threat to
boycott the inquiry unless
hearings were held in public
except when there were “clear
and compelling’’ reasons to
meet in private.

Tory MPs. who form the
majority of the committee,
appeared to be hardening
their line, having been buoyed
by Monday's Commons vote
in favour of the committee
deciding how to proceed.

Although both sides said
they hoped to reach a compro¬
mise, neither of the main
parties was willing to shift its
ground substantially. Doug
Hoyle, chairman of the Lab¬
our parliamentary party, and
a committee member, rejected
Tory claims that a public
hearing would lead to mid
allegations being made. “We
are talking about senior mem¬
bers of the House of Com¬
mons, responsible people who
are asking questions. There
are not going to be wild
allegations.”

At the heart of the argimient
between the two parties is
whether there should be a
change to the Commons
precedent that has led to all
previous Privileges Commit¬
tee inquiries being held in
private.

The secrecy in which MPs'
and outsiders' alleged misde¬
meanors are investigated has
given the committee a unique

influence within Parliament
However, the committee’s
bark has rarely been matched
by its bite as MPs have
frequently backed away from
imposing tough punishment

The present 17-strong com¬
mittee. which includes two
Cabinet ministers and four
Privy Counsellors, has not sat
since it was formed after the
last general election. Although
the committee has power to
imprison offenders, the sanc¬
tion has not been used for 162
years.

In recent years, the most
common breaches of parlia¬
mentary privilege have been
committed by journalists pub¬
lishing details of select com¬
mittee reports that had not
been published formally. In
1966 Richard Evans, then a
lobby journalist for The
Times, escaped punishment
when the Commons voted
against his supension after he
leaked a draft select committee
report on radioactive waste.

In 1957. the columnist John
Jim or was also spared by the
Commons after the Privileges
Committee pressed for a repri¬
mand over his criticism of
MPs for voting in favour of
supplying extra petrol rations
to party organisations.

Among the MPs to win promotion in Blair’s reshuffle are, from left, Gavin Strang. Dawn Primarolo, Joan Ruddock and Andrew Smith

Tony Blair’s new front-bench team

■ Tony Blair, the Labour Party
leader, completed his first reshuffle of
the Opposition front bench this week.
This is the full list, with members of
the shadow Cabinet in bold

Labour Leader

Tony Btafr

Deputy Leader

John Prescott

Foreign Affairs

Robin Cook

Joyce Quin

Ann CJwyd (also
assistant to John
Prescott)

Jim Cousins

Health

Margaret Beckett

Nlckerown .

Eric IDsley

David Hlnchdffie

Children and Families Uin Golding

Treasury
Shadow Chief
Secretary

Gordon Brown
Andrew Smith

Simon Jenkins and
Paul Johnson, page 18
Leading article and
Letters, page 19

Hilary Armstrong
ASstafr Darling
Dawn Primarolo

Social Security

Donald Dewar
Keith Bradley
Adam Ingram

Employment

Hairfet Hannan

Ian McCartney

Kevin Barron

Environment
and London

Frank Dobson

Tony Uoyd

Keith Vaz

Nick Raynsford

Environmental

Protection

Joan Ruddock

Scotland

George Robertson

John McFall

Maria Fyfe

John McAffion

Northern Ireland

Marjorie Mowlam

Paul Murphy

National Heritage

Chris Smith

Graham ABen

Mark Fisher

Tom Pendry

Trade and Industry

Jack Cunnlngtiam

Brian Wilson

Stuart Bell

Lewis Moon la

Nigel Griffiths

Energy

Martin O'Neil

Transport

Michael Meocher

Henry MdLeish

Joan Waley

Ron Davies
Win Griffiths
Bhodrl Mora

Law Officers

John Morris
Donald Anderson

David dark
Derek Fetched
John Reid
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company

Two days after winning a
seat m the Russian pariia-
Sergei Mavrodi, ftfe
" uslne ssman who runs the
conIr °yer5ial MMM “invest-
delivered a bu-
rebuff to -share-
^^ohadMped.oge.

A m essage; broadcast yes-
srtsv friim _:__

From Amatol Lieven in Moscow

: S'0-

nch tean

ode his maiit Moscow officer
declared to a waiting crowd
that their shares were now
;sr “5™* Although it said that
this was only a temporary
ttffiasure^ until January l the
latest twist m the get-rich-

- saga finally appeared to
have cracked his hardcore
supporters’faith.

The crowd erupted in cat¬
calls, boos and - sardonic
laughter. Most of than had
assembled there in response to

announcements fiat MMM.
after closing forthireracmths-
white Mr Mavrodi was in jail
under investigation fear fraud-
and tax evasion, would reopen
; yesterday to resume trading in '
hs shares. ...

Gennadi Afexeyev, a garage
manager, standing glumly in
the pouring rain, said: “Right
up to today.. I. believed in -
Mavrodi. but now I seel was
fooled. I demonstrated to get
him reteased from prison, but
the moment he was elected .
‘ and getf imimmityfreg np rose-
cutkm he didn’t need us any¬
more, so he just turned round
and spat on us.”

Mr .Mavrodi has again
shown his contempt for Rus¬
sia's muddledfegal system
that seems powerless to pre¬
vent fass sort of pyramid -
. operations. As Mr Alexeyev
vented his anger.theoOy voice
of an MMM spokesman- re¬
peated Mr Mawodft state- '
ment that the suspension
the old shares was due to
“purely technical problems",
^and that the company's “re-
^ serve fund" was qmte capable -
of paying back everybody. The
■ announcement also promised

- that after January, existing -

- shareholders; weald once

be able to sell their
; at ever-rising profits.

Mr Mavrodi has admitted
that his motive in contesting
the bydection in the Moscow
suburb of Mytishchi was to
gain parliamentary immunity
from .- prosecution. He was
supported hy V lad h n h* ffhiryn -
ovsky, the nationalist leader.

But the businessman has
also portrayed himarifc with
■ some success, as a little man
• being persecuted by the bu¬
reaucracy. The infuriated
shareholders also levelled at-,
tacks at the Yeltsin adminis¬
tration yesterday. “The
government are criminals too.

. WlQr didn't they warn us in
time?* AQa Samoilova, a stu-

A ■ • .

Colonel-General Matvei
- Burlakov, above; ftte Rus-
eum Deputy. Defence
. Minister, was dismissed
yesterday by President
YeBsin. General Burla¬
kov, who until the end of
Aagost commanded the
former Soviet Western
Army Group in eastern
Germany; has been ac¬
cused by Or-'Rnssaao
press of corrqpfios. £ast
month, a reporter was
Jolted by a .bomb, days
before tie was to testily at
ut inquiry at which he was
to show documents that be
said would pve illegal
weapons flatting by group
officers; (Ratter) .

s-i r, . •. .. . ?;• j •' , ,

deni, demanded. “We have no
experience of this kind of
thing. How were we to know?"

Economists describe MMM
as a classic pyramid scheme
which uses money from new
investors to pay trade a hand¬
ful of old shareholders; even¬
tually. the bubble bursts.
Several other such schemes
have already collapsed tins
year, but more are springing
up all the time.

Mr Mavrodi is also starting
all over again: yesterday's
announcement stated that a
completely new set of shares
would be issued. MMM also
announced in advance a fixed
rising price for purchasing the
• new shares, from 1,000 rou¬
bles Q 8 p) today to 1.270 on
Friday.

A line of buyers immediate¬
ly formed. A closer investiga¬
tion revealed that, far from
bang the simple folk who lost
their money in the first share
issue, the new takers were
predominantly hard-faced
men. apparently from other
commercial structures br out¬
right criminal groups, as well
as professional speculators
who were able to pressure Mr
Mavrodi into giving them
their money bade.

Miss Samoilova observed:
“When we were queueing in
July to fry to sell our shares,
you could see those people
going in freely and carrying
our money away in sacks,
because Mavrodi was afraid
of them. Now they are going to
try the same again."

But not all the new specula¬
tors were thugs. Some ordi¬
nary Russians are also
beginning to understand the
rules of the game, if rules there
are. Svetlana Krutikova, a
pensioner holding her grand¬
son by the hand, said: “Yes. 1
am going to buy again. In
June. I saw what was coming
... 1 got out and 1 made a lot of
money. I bought this coat on
the strength of L But this time.
Ill oily buy a few shares.
After what’s happened, you’d
be a fool to do anything else."

An angry shareholder burning an MMM share certificate, bearing a portrait of Sergei Mavrodi, outside the firm’s main Moscow office yesterday

Backpack case defendant
claims police framed hi m

From Roger Maynard in Sydney

THE Australian roadworker
charged with killing seven
backpackers broke his silence
yesterday with an angry out¬
burst in which he accused
police of trying to frame him.

Ivan Mil at 49, yelled from
the dock as a police witness
produced a rucksack, identical
to one owned by Simone
Schmidl. a German alleged to
have been one of his victims,
which had a label painted
with the initials L M. “You put
it* there yourself." Mr Mflar
shouted at Andrew Grasse, a
forensic investigator.

Rocking with fury, he leapt
to his feet and raised his hands
to Michael Price, the chief

magistrate, asking permission
to speak again. “Your honour
— 1 am very sony. your
honour." the defendant added
before sitting down.

During the fifth day of
committal proceedings at
Campbell town court, near
Sydney, it was alleged that a
water bottle found in Mr
Milat's home bore the name
Simi, a nickname for Frafilein
Schmidl. Attempts had been
made to scratch it out. but a
special light showed the out¬
line of the letters.

Inside Mr Milat’s home in a
Sydney suburb, police also
discovered a hunting knife, a
camouflage mask and a book

entitled Violent Crimes That
Rocked a Nation.

Later the court adjourned to
the remote bushland where
the bodies of all seven back¬
packers were found, including
Caroline Clarke, from Slaley,
Northumberland, and Joanne
Walters, of Maesteg. Mid
Glamorgan. Mr Price was
accompanied by officials to
the Belanglo State Forest in
the Southern Highlands of
New South Wales. A plan to
allow Mr Milat to join the
party was abandoned as the
magistrate feared the exercise
could turn into a media circus.

Leading article, page 19

Convict recaptured in
chase across Germany

From Reuter in driedorf. hesse

POLICE yesterday captured
one of two escaped convicts
who had gone to ground in a
wooded holiday village after a
24-hour crime and hostage-
taking spree across Germany.

Hesse state police said that
Gerhard Polak, 35. who had
been serving time for armed
robbery, had been caught
running through the woods at
the holiday resort of Heister-
berg, north of Frankfurt, while
trying to escape the dragnet.

“He lay down on the ground
and offered no resistance
when he was apprehended."
police said, adding that Herr
Polak had a grenade and a
gun when he was captured.
The other suspect. Raymond
Albert. 32. who had been

convicted of murder and sen¬
tenced to life, was still at large
but police said they were
dosing in. Hundreds of police
officers, backed up hy
armoured cars. GSG9 com¬
mandos. helicopters and dogs,
had poured into the pictur¬
esque valley just outside
Driedorf. The two convicts,
who escaped three weeks ago
from a Hamburg prison, re¬
leased three hostages they had
held on their high-speed crime
spree across Germany.

The pair had shaken off
pursuers during the night
after a chase which took them
from Hesse in the west to
Saxony. Brandenburg and
Thuringia in the east and then
b 2 ck to Hesse.

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triumphs in Kashmir kidnap farce

,■ Jsltoc extremists are hankering for a holy war
m Kashmir. but do not have the support of Muslims,
who want to be.independent of both India and
Pakistan, Christopher Thomas writes from Delhi

^aod fewTVDokl want to join it* despite
Islamabad’s claims to the contrary.

- There is scant su p po rt fo r Hizbul
Mujahidin. the Pakistani-backed
,'hmaamentaBst group that has the.
.greatest firepower in the Kashmir -
. valley and poses die most significant
threat to Indian troops. Hizbul
hijacked die uprising from poorly
funded secular groups* in jectin g an
unpopular Islamic dimension into it
Tb& secular Jammu and Kashmir
liberation Front which started the
-uprising by exploding a small bomb
in Srinagar in 1989. laid down its
weapons this year because it was too
.weak to fight Politically, it remains

strong because it advocates indepen¬
dence — the so-called “third option",
which is unacceptable to both Paki¬
stan and India. In a genuinely free
election, the front would doubtless
win overwhelming Muslim support.

The former independent kingdom
of Kashmir, variously ruled In its
mote distant past by Afghans, Mo¬
guls. Sikhs and others, was carved up
between India and Pakistan in a brief
war in late 1947. Neither country has
shown the slightest willingness to
relinquish its slice, and the Kashmiri
Muslims’ hope of gaining indepen¬
dence seems an impossible dream.
Al-Hadid. the group that kidnapped

the three Britons and an American
backpacker, said in nores to the BBC.
the Voice of America and Indian
newspapers that ii was based in
“Afghan tribal territory-". This iden ri¬
fled it as another leftover faction from
the war in Afghanistan against the
former Soviet Union. Such groups
hanker for another jihad (holy war).

A number of them train young
Kashmiris in Afghanistan in guerril¬
la tactics. India overstates this"Islam¬
ic threat because it plays well
internationally: there is. in fact, no
tradition of Islamic extremism in the
valley, and people are unresponsive
to attempts to Jslamise the conflict.

After five years of bloodshed, the
valley is exhausted and people seem
desperate for a political compromise
with India. Pakistan's Kashmir poli¬
cy is aimed at ensuring this does not
happen: peace between India and the
Muslims of the valley would be
disastrous for Islamabad, for whose
leaders Kashmir is a potent political

tool. India recently released several
of the valley's most popular leaders
from jail in the hope of improving the
atmosphere before planned elections
in Kashmir in spring.

Delhi is trying to coax Farooq
Abdullah, the immensely unpopular
former Chief Minister and leader of
the defunct National Conference, to
become politically active again. He
says he may cooperate if India
promises substantial autonomy to
Kashmir: this has been refused.

But if the National Conference can
be revived, if Dr Abdullah can be re¬
invented. if the militants can be
controlled, if Pakistan fads to cause
trouble, and if Kashmiri Muslims
can be convinced that elections would
not be rigged, then the valley just
might get a taste of limited and
somewhat flawed democracy.

On the other hand, the government
may be forced to abandon the idea
and continue with de facto martial
law.

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Islamic
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DIPLOMATIC EDITOR

By Charles BRemner and Charles Richards

A BOMB killed five children
and wounded 17 in ail AI§
an cemetery yesterday as i
damentalist leaders . poured
scorn on a promise fay Fresi-
dent Zeroual to hold presiden¬
tial elections next year.

The bomb exploded in the
midst of a group of Seoofs at
the town ofMostaganero, 160
miles west of Algiers, as thiey
attended a service marking
the 40fit, anniversary of the
start of the.. country's eight-
year rebdlma against Frajdi
cokmial rule. A former sade-
pendexnb fighter was yround-
ed in another blast at Chief* 90
miles southeast of the

The Mestagane
was the first azmec) directly at
^children in the campaign that
has 5dHed at least 10,000
people since fee lshuceac Salva¬
tion Front (FIS) declared war
an the Btifitaiy-badted gov¬
ernment in I99& There was no
claim of responsibility, buz
Windtenorinrrs astandard
weapon of titefKTiiM' fie
more extreme AnaetT Idamk:
Group. The junta is said by
French officials to be' also
guilty of aoodlKS, -.

Yesterdays attacks carried
a symbolic diarge, coming on
the anniversary of “Bloody AD
Saints" in 1954. when the
Front de Liberation National
(FIN). nowthedounJiys rul¬
ing party, shot and bombed
Ftendt personnel in the open¬
ing of its offensive. That war
kilted 300^00 people and gave
birth in 1958 to the Hrench
Fifth Republic.

Three days after conceding
that he had failed in- an
attempt at peace talks with the
FIS. President Zeroual used
the national day to announce
that he would call Algeria's
first direct presidential ejec¬
tion before fie end of 1995.
“Algeria deserves better than
fie aril war towards which
certain people warn to push
it." he said. It wasthearmy’s
cancellation of parliamentary

elections in early 1992 fiat
: sparked - the underground
war. FIS officials yesterday

■ dismissed General Zeroual’s
offer as meaningless, and
premised to intensify the fight¬
ing. Anwar Haddam. bead of

. the FIS parliamentary group.

■ said from New York that the
. Presidents call, was a symp¬
tom of desperation.

President Zeroual said FIS
leaders bad been responsible
for fie collapse of talks. Abassi
Madam and Ali Bdhadj, who
were transferred from prison
to house arrest in order to
negntifltp', had pncrqira ged fiir-
'ther violence, he said.

Analysts said President
Zeroual was partly playing for
time as he seeks fresh capital
frofifie International Mane-
toy Fund and presses his
harsh drive against the FIS
and its sympathisers.

Although fie FIS was
poised to win parliamentary
power in K 92, its murderous
campaijto in pursuit of Islam¬
ic conformity is said by some
Algerians to have undarnined.
its popular strength. .

Wifi fie "Second Algerian
War" causing heavy anxiety in
Paris. Firance yesterday took
nostalgic and sorrowful stock
of fie chaotic nation whose
destiny was once so closely
bound wifi its own. Most
media blamed fie FIN for
rejecting France and the West
in favour of three decades of
Mantist-style dictatorship and
economic bungling.

In London, one of fie neuf
historiques, fee nine original
leaders of the liberation move¬
ment. made an impassioned
plea to fie West to suspend aid
to the junta until human
rights are improved.

Hocine Ait Ahmed said
sanctions could help force a
transition. He balanced this
appeal wifi a plea fiat “mea¬
sures be taken against coun¬
tries supporting Islamic
armed groups."

LONDON has become one of
tiie world’s most important
havens for Islamic funda¬
mentalist dissidents. Where¬
as Paris used to offer
sanctuary to opponents of
communist and other totali¬
tarian governments. Britain
is now fie main centre where
radical opponents of moder¬
ate Muslim government are
plotting their overthrow.

Uniter liberal asylum laws
that do little to curb the
political activities of those
allowed to stay in Britain, an
increasing number of hard¬
line groups intent on combat¬
ing Western values and
influence and setting up Is¬
lamic republics in thor coun¬
tries. are operating from
London offices, protected by
the democratic institutions
they are intent on overthrow¬
ing at home.

Members of many of the
world’s most notorious ex¬
tremist groups have arrived
in London recently to take
advantage of the good com¬
munications and media con¬
centration, knowing that the
only restriction is that they
must not break British law.

They include men such as
Ahmed aFMassari. a Saudi
fundamentalist who beads
the so-called Committee for
Defence of Legitimate Rights
which is. working for the
overthrow of the Saudi mon¬
archy; Rashid Ghannouchi,
leader of fie banned Tuni¬
sian Islamic party an-Nahda.
who has been accused of
masterminding a bomb at¬
tack that injured several Brit¬
ish tourists in Tunisia;
supporters of the Algerian
Islamic Salvation Front (FIS)
which has ordered fie killing
of foreigners in Algeria and is
engaged in a dvfl war that
has taken up to 25.000 lives;
and members of Hamas, fie
radical Palestinian group
which claimed responsibility
for fie Tel Aviv bus bomb
that kilted 26.

Most of fee radicals are
working against Muslim gov¬
ernments fiat Britain consid¬
ers friendly and moderate.
Angry and frustrated, those
governments are urging Brit-

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ain to outlaw or expel these
groups, and have taken up
the cases of individual dissi¬
dents at fie highest level,
with fie Prime Minister or
Foreign Secretary. Concerned
ai fie damage this could do
and the setback to peace in
the Middle East, Britain is
stepping up its surveillance of
fundamentalists operating
here. But the Home Office is
unwilling to change the crite¬
ria for admission and is loath
to undermine Britain’s reput¬
ation for fair dealing by
making asylum dependent on
politically acceptable views.

Nevertheless, the Govern¬
ment is pondering ah idea
that goes against the entire
tradition of political asylum:
whether it should attempt to
deport “undesirable" appli¬
cants even at the risk of
subsequently having the
order overturned in the
courts.

Although it does have the
rarely-invoked power to de¬
port foreigners on grounds
that fieir presence would
bun national security, the
Home Office has traditional-
been reluctant to make
eportation orders it could
not uphold in court Douglas
Hurd, as Foreign Secretary,
knows that an attempt even

if unsuccessful, to deport
political activists would reas¬
sure worried foreign govern¬
ments. and would allow the
Government to point to the
independence of the courts.
But as a former Home Secre¬
tary. he is reluctant to suggest
such a thing to Michael
Howard.

Some attempt has been
made to tighten restrictions.
After protests from France,

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groups are
protected by the
institutions they
are intent on

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the Government has looked
carefull)' at the activities of
RS members here; applica¬
tions for asylum by Algerians
are routinely referred to MI5.
Those granted asylum are
now given an explicit warn¬
ing that if they support or
conspire to cause violence
whether in Britain or abroad
and so endanger national
security or public order, fieir
say may be curtailed or they

may be deponed. The at¬
tempted deportation of Kani
Yilmaz. a leader of fie Kurd¬
ish PKK group, underlines
the explicit link to violence —
though not necessarily to
Islamic fundamentalism — of
these groups. More than 60
members of the PKK were
deponed last year after being
accused of intimidating
Turks in Britain. However.
Britain turned down a re¬
quest from Ankara to outlaw
the PKK. as Germany has
done.

Another group active in
Britain is fie Iranian People's
Mujahidin, known in fie
West as the National Council
of Resistance and linked to
fie Iraq-based National Lib¬
eration Army. The Stale De¬
partment in Washington,
despite poor relations with
Iran, yesterday issued a re¬
port saying this group was
not a viable alternative to
Tehran, was “fundamentally
undemocratic", had mur¬
dered at least six American
citizens and supported fie
takeover of the American
Embassy in Tehran. It said
fie group, which lobbies MPs
and the media in Britain, had
fostered a “cult of person¬
ality” around its leader.
Masud Rajavi.

Fashion houses take scissors to supermodel fees

]: was being
: $10,000 a day

From James Bone
in newyork

THE fashion industry is under invests-.
gation in America for possible price-
fixing fiat has denied nee-market fees
to some of the world’s top models at
this week's New York catwalk shows.

The Federal Trade Commission
inquiry got under way as New York’s
leading designers began unveiling
their spring 1995collections in the city’s
annual fashion week.

Until last year, supermodels such as
Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer
and Evangelista could earn

$10,000 (£6,700) or more for a day
parading fie latest designer wear
along a catwalk in New York. But the
organisers of tins year’s fashion week

have tried to limit the models' fees to
$750 an hour, wifi typical bookings
running four or five hours.

“You don’t make as much money
here as London or Milan," the waif¬
like superrnodd Kate Moss com¬
plained to one reporter.

The trade commission's bureau of
competition has already sent letters to
many of the top designers participating
in the fashion week, including Calvin
Klein. Donna Karan and Nicole
Miller, asking for detailed records of
past payments to models. Similar
requests have gone out to leading
modelling agencies, including Ford
Models.

According to a trade -commission
tetter obtained by The Wall Street

Journal the focus of the agency's
investigation is whether fashion de¬
signers “may be engaging in, or may
have engaged in. unfair methods of
competition or unfair acts and prac¬
tices ... in the process of collectively
negotiating modelling fees".

Talk of possible anti-competitive
practices in the fashion industry began
to circulate last year when the Council
of Fashion Designers of America
formed “Seventh on Sixth" to stage
fashion shows in New York.

The leading designers from New
York’s Sevenih Avenue fashion district
agreed to work together to cut soaring
costs by staging all events at a single
venue in Bryant Park on 42nd Street
and Sixth Avenue. Seventh on Sixth

initially proposed to put a cap on
models’ fees to give smaller designers
equal access to modelling superstars.

But when model agencies objected, a
"compromise" agreement was reached
in which models would be paid
between $250 and $750 an hour. The
designers say that the agreement is
non-binding and each fashion house is
free to pay models as much as they
please.

Relative unknowns are leaping to fill
fie shoes of the famous who choose to
withdraw fieir labour, seeing this
week's New York shows as a spring¬
board to success and. they hope, huge
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Democrats rush to
cash in on revived
Clinton fortunes

Bush sons

on course
to renew
a dynasty

from Tom Rhodes
and Ian Brodie

IN WASHINGTON

From Martin Fletcher in Philadelphia

A MONTH ago a presidential
visir was the Iasi thing Harris
Wofford wanted as the Demo¬
crat battled to retain his
Pennsylvania Senate seat, but
not any more. Bill Clinton, his
standing boosted by a rush of
good news on the foreign and
economic fronts, is suddenly
in demand.

On Monday, Mr Wofford
and eight Pennsylvania con¬
gressmen welcomed Mr Clin¬
ton to their state. Yesterday,
Bob Carr and Joel Hyatt.
Democrat Senate candidates
who had spumed the Presi¬
dent on his earlier visits,
eagerly shared platforms with
him in Michigan and Ohio.

Right up to election day
next Tuesday. Mr Clinton will
be barnstorming across the
North and the West, and the
key question is whether his
sudden resurgence can. even
at this late stage, deprive the
Republicans of the seven Sen¬
ate and 40 House gains they
need to capture Congress.

“This President is on a roll,”
declared Ed EtendeU. Mayor
of Philadelphia, as he intro¬
duced Mr Clinton at a City
Hall rally for Mr Wofford —
and indeed, Mr Clinton was
in ebullient mood. “The sun
has begun to shine m this
election." the President insist¬
ed Americans were begin¬
ning to sed through the
Republicans' “snake oil”
promises of pain-free tax cuts,
and to understand that his
Administration had taken the
hard decisions required for a
lasting economic recovery.
“This election re p re s e nts a
simple choice between going
forward and going back. The
country’s in better shape than

it was 21 months ago. We've
got a lot to do, but don't let's
turn bade now."

Mr Clinton's luck has also
improved. Michael Huffing-
ton’s $25 million (ELS million)
bid to unseat Dianne Fein-
srein. California's Democratic
senator, has been rocked by
the discovery that he em¬
ployed an illegal immigrant
as a nanny. Texas floods have
given Ann Richards, the
state's endangered Democrat¬
ic Governor, a timely chance
to show leadership. Above all.
a string of prominent Repub¬

licans have chosen this criti¬
cal moment to break ranks.

Richard Riordan, Republi¬
can Mayor of bos Angeles,
has endorsed Ms Feinstein
over Mr Huffingion. Rudolph
Guiliani, the Republican
Mayor of New York, has
endorsed Mario Cuomo, the
Democratic state Governor.
Nancy Reagan has de¬
nounced Oliver North, the
Virginia Senate candidate,
and Teresa Heinz, widow of
Pennsylvania's former Re¬
publican senator, has round¬
ed on Rick Santorum. the
right-wing Republican seek¬
ing to oust Mr Wofford.

For good measure. Jade
Kemp and William Bennett,
both former Bush Cabinet
members, have condemned
Proposition 187, the draconian
anti-immigrant measure chi

California’s ballot paper that
Pete Wilson, the Republican
Governor, has made a centre¬
piece of his re-election bid.

New polls suggest that Mr
Cuomo and Edward Kenne¬
dy, the Massachusetts sena¬
tor, are almost out of danger,
and show Chuck Robb. Vir¬
ginia's Democratic senator,
edging ahead of Mr North.
Lawton Chiles. Florida's
Democratic Governor, has
drawn level with Jeb Bush,
the former President's son.

However, the broader out¬
look still remains ominous for
the Democrats: at least ten
Senate and 100 House races
remain too dose to call.

Pundits seeking to forecast
eai^y next Tuesday night how
the; country has voted will
seize on Mr Wofford’s Penn¬
sylvania result In 1991. he
exposed the depth of anger at
President Bush's domestic ap¬
athy by winning an astound¬
ing Senate byelection victory
over Richard Thornburgh,
then the Attorney-General.

Using that campaign as a
blueprint. James Carvule, Mr
Wofford’s campaign strate¬
gist went on to mastermind
Mr Clinton’S presidential vic¬
tory the following year. Bat
both Mr Wofford. 68, and Mr
Clinton later plummeted in
foe polls as they failed to
deliver radical reform, partic¬
ularly in healthcare.

Pennsylvania is politically
centrist a demographic mi¬
crocosm of America, and its
decision to reject or re-elect
Mr Wofford mil offer a dear
indication not only of whether
the Republicans have cap¬
tured the Senate but of wheth¬
er Clintonism has a future.

T wo sons of George
Bush, the former Presi¬
dent — George W. and
Jeb — are on target to
continue a political dynasty
in America as Republican
Governors of Texas and Flor¬
ida. Yet in their campaigns,
each has dealt differently
with the critical question:
what to do about Dad?

George W., 46. has kept his
father at arm’s length, allow¬
ing him to appear only at
private fund-raising events in
Texas. By contrast, Jeb. 41,
has invited him along for
rallies in Florida.

The younger Georee was
candid about his decision. He
was worried that if his father
appeared with him voters
would say be needed the
parental backing because he
was too unknown to cam¬
paign on his own. “My dad
understands fully,” he said.

Jeb insists that he, too, is
his - own man, but enjoys
having his father and his
mother, Barbara Bush. In the
background. He answers his
critics: “Can you imagine
what would happen if my
parents didn't come and gra¬
ciously help their son?”

At a rally in Orlando, he
compared his mo titer with
Mother Teresa, adding:
“She's the greatest woman
I*ve ever met”. Mrs Bush
called Jeb “this remarkab le
young man that we're lucky
enough to call our son”. Mr
Bush senior, noting that his
wife's memoirs are a run¬
away hit, took foe podium to
say: “1 have the most difficult
job of afl, following the next
Governor of Florida and the
number one best-sdUag au¬
thor in the US” 1
The family outings with

Jeb Bush, above, facing his opponent, Lawton Chiles, and, below, George W. Bush—sons of the former President

George W„ their eldest son,
are more restrained. At one
fund-raiser, George W.
turned and said: “Mr Presi¬
dent — Dad — we're glad
you're here. After two years,
our country understands how
bad we miss you.”

Both sons are trading on
nostalgia for their father's
presidency and both have
tapped into his database of
wealthy contributors. The
Bush dynasty began with
Senator Prescott Bush, the ex-
President's father. The family
lacks the Camelot aura of the
Kennedys or the wealth of the
Rockefellers. Rather, it offers

a succession reliant on energy
and drive. Jeb is tall and thin
with the unmistakably lop¬
sided grin that marks him out
as Ids father’s son. George is
stockier but has a closer facial
resemblance. Both are affable
and courteous in the family
tradition. Jeb concedes that
the name means political
doors are opened that might
not be otherwise. This celebri¬
ty factor infuriates their
opponents.

“I'm sure he's a perfectly
nice young man, hut can yon
imagine anyone voting for
him if he used the name
George Walker?” asked Ann

Richards, the Democratic
Governor of Texas who is
struggling in the polls. Law-
ton Chiles, Florida's Demo¬
cratic Governor, also fighting
for political survival, was
even more scathing. “John
Ellis,” he said, using Jeb’s
seldom-used Christian
names, “when are you
to stop having Momma
Daddy come to raise another

mill in n dollars?”

The Bush brothers have
both fashioned a conservative
message. George W. advo¬
cates a tougher approach to
crime. Jeb has singled out
welfare cuts.

Pyongyang
to halt

reactors

From Jonathan Mirsky

IN HONG KONG

LI PENG, China's Prime Min¬
ister. yesterday told Lee Yung-
duk, his South Korean
counterpart “China will play
a constructive role in promot¬
ing peace on the peninsula.”

On foe same day in Peking
President Jiang was telling a
North Korean delegation that
foe bilateral relationship be¬
tween the two countries was
“cemented by blood and fos¬
tered by revolutionaries of the
older generation"

Despite Peking's protesta¬
tions of unabated comrade¬
ship with Pyongyang, the
South is seen as a friendly and
prosperous neighbour and
China has been irritated by
what it has seen as the North's
self-imposed isolation.

The Chinese will be grati¬
fied therefore by Pyongyang's
announcement yesterday that
it will immediately halt con¬
struction of two graphite reac¬
tors which Western experts
suspected were intended to
produce fuel for atomic weap¬
ons. Washington had offered
light-water reactors instead,
which could generate energy
but not help produce weapons.

Soldier rescued behind

Iraq lines died in crash

By Michael Evans, defence correspondent

THE tragic story of an Ameri¬
can special forces soldier who
was rescued from behind Iraqi
lines during foe Gulf War.
only to be killed in a helicopter
crash in a sandstorm as he
was bring flown back to Saudi
Arabia, was revealed yester¬
day. He was one of eight
members of the special forces
killed in the accident
Details of the tragedy were
disclosed in London by Gener¬
al Wayne Downing, com-
mander-in-chief of US Special
Operations Command, who
was in charge of a joint special
operations task force during
the war. He said foot Ameri¬
can and British special forces

carried out joint covert opera¬
tions behind foe Iraqis' lines,
sabotaging Scud missile
launchers, disrupting military
communications, and launch¬
ing diversionaxy raids.

British Special Air Service
units had infiltrated behind
enemy lines a week to ten days
before their American coun¬
terparts. he added. It was
during this early stage that an
eight-man SAS patrol was
discovered by Iraqi troops and
tried to escape on foot across
foe desert towards foe Syrian
border. Two died of hypother¬
mia. one was killed in a
firefight with Iraqi soldiers,
four were captured and tor¬
tured, and one escaped. The
four who were captured were
released after the war.

General Downing said the
SAS had given invaluable
help to the US special forces
when they went into Kuwait
and Iraq. They shared with
us everything they knew, like
the sort of dothes to wear
because it was so cold,"he said
at foe Royal United Services
Institute for Defence Studies.

He said none of his special
forces soldiers was takei pris¬

oner by foe Iraqis, but be¬
tween 25 and 30 were “in
danger" of being captured and
had to be rescued. The helicop¬
ter disaster occurred after a
special forces seareft-and-res-
cue team had gone in to find a
soldier who had fallen down a
cliff and hurt his back. A
spatially adapted Blade Hawk
helicopter picked him up
safely.

On the way back, the heli¬
copter Sew into a sandstorm
and crashed, killing foe eight
soldiers. General Downing
said that the pilot was the
most experienced in opera¬
tions behind Iraqi lines.

The contrast between Amer¬
ican and British rescue capa¬
bilities during the war was
also highlighted yesterday.
Whenever there was an SOS
from American soldiers on
covert missions, the message
was first picked up by a
special forces team on board
an early warning aircraft pa¬
trolling over the war zone.

US bombers were then sent
in to divert foe Iraqis’ atten¬
tion in the area, while Black
Hawk helicopters flew in low
to rescue foe soldiers.

Harrelson in Killers

Murder link
to violent
screen role

Salt Lake City; A manhnnt
was on yesterday for a 17-
year-old youth with an obses¬
sion for the gory box-office
hit Natural Bom KUlers
suspected of lolling his step¬
mother and halfeister. Na¬
than Martinez shaved his
head and started wearing
tinted granny spectacles in an
apparent emulation of the
character played by Woody
Harrrisonu in the Oliver
Stone film which has been
criticised for bring overly
violent. Mr Martinez is sus¬
pected of shooting Lauren
Martinez and Alexis, aged
fen, in their beds.

West Point embarrassed by
charge of sexual harassment

From James Bone in newyork

ROWDY members of the
American football team at the
West Point military academy
have embroiled foe US mfli-
taiy in another embarrassing
sexual harrassment scandal

Female cadets ai foe elite
officer-training school in New
York state complain that they
were “groped" by football
players when they ran past the
West Point team at a rally.

Stung by bad publicity over
the "TaDhook affair", in which
male US Navy aviators mo¬
lested about 80 of their female
colleagues at a 1991 convention
in Las Vegas, senior military
officials insisted yesterday
that foe latest incident was
minor by comparison. But the

West Point charges under¬
scored the difficulties foe US
militaiy has had in integrat¬
ing women into the aimed
forces.

Lieutenant-General How¬
ard Graves, the superintend¬
ent of West Point, said 18
women had complained of-
abuse after the so-called “spir¬
it rera” on October 20 in which
about 600 cadets streamed
past a line of about 200
football players in the acade¬
my’s sports stadium.

The women — who are"
among 473 female cadets in
the current student population
of 4,055 — said some of the
sportsmen had reached out
and touched their breasts. So

Car, foree football players have
come forward and said they
inadvertenlly brushed against
foewomen’s chests. Altogeth¬
er, five players are under
investigation after befog
turned in by team-mates. .

The charges are to be heard
by a West Point officer, and it
has already been derided that
foe maximum peoalty will be
a three-month suspension
from foe football team plus
extra time marching and do¬
ing drill.

But Weist Point is so scared
Of the damage .foe incident
might do to its reputation that
it has notified foe Pentagon
and Congressional oversight
authorities.

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of- a letter from-
“f^nam-Generai sir Mich-

fSJS'S of.fte

United Nations troops in Bos-
raa, to General Rafleo Mladic,
the B osnian Serb military
commander. Is likely to cause
in Washington, widen
ttonft between Nato and the
UN. an d.renew Bosnian gov¬
ernment calls for the British
general's resig nation
The letter, obtained by Tke
Tunes, win be interpreted as
ttownstratmg Geherd Rose’s ■
- reluctance to call for Nato
** ^strikes against the Bosnian
Serbs, an attitude diametrical-
ty opposite to Nato 1 * demands
for tougher actioru T would
Gl(e to confirm that the UN
always regrets the need to use
force in "its peacekeeping mis¬
sion,’* General Rose says.

.“As commander BH (Bos-
nia-Herzegovina) Com mand. -'
1 fuDy agree with you that we
must, in the future, avcad aD
situations ■ which necessitate
the use of force, whether it be

applied from the ground or the

air."

The letter, dated September
30, also asks for doser flaiann
and co-opexaiion between the
Bosnian Serbs ', and UN

.DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT

iy,- The government troops
;have .overrun nearly 100
square miles in their
onslaught -
Goieral Rose has in the past
c alled- for Nato to consider
airstrikes "■against Bosnian
Muslims as well as against the
Serbs, and his letter to Gener¬
al Mladic was disclosed as it
became dear that Washington
is. vehemently opposed to this.

. Warren Christopher, the

! American Secretary of State,
yesterday rejected a sugges¬
tion by General Rose that
Nato warplanes mi g h t attack 1
Bosnian government forces.

. The policy of keeping “safe
havens” clear of conflict ap¬
plies equally to the mostly
Muslim army as wefl as to the
Serbs, but Mr Christopher
Mid “we don't see any occa¬
sion for it at the present time’,

The reaffirmation of Gener¬
al Rose's reluctance to-can
airstrikes win increase friction'
between Washington and
Nato, and the feet .that his
reluctance is made dear in a
letter to the Bosnian Serb
military chief iff «rjam to-
further alienate the Muslim-
led Bosnian. - -government.. -
These strains come at&penl-
ous time iff Bosnia.- with'
fighting thnsaiemng fo spin
back into Gratia. with Serbs
there threatening to-sapport
their Bosniah btediren m the
face of a surge by MusEm-led
troops around ffihac, near die
Croatian border. ...

The rebel Serbs in Croatia
j. have massed then- taras and
“ threatened to advance into
northwest Basrtia, UN observ¬
ers said yesterday. About
2.000 Serbsokfiersfrom the
Krajina have, bear.

mobilised smce Bceman gov- '
emi nent /

the mainly Mtidga endave of
Bihac last weA ahd smashed
deep into Beaman Sertrtenito-

Rose says UN.always
regrets use of force

because lhe liitited States still
considered the Bosnian Serbs
the mam. aggressors m the
war.

Although General Rose
wants tobe able to call
airstrikes against all sides in
die conflict if necessary, he is
opposed to any large-scale
increase in Nato action
because be fears for the safety
of peacekeepers on the ground
and worries thar mare outside
i ntervention in foe. Balkan
conflict may destroy delicate
and complicated international
diplomatic efforts to forge, a
negotiated settlement. In Ins
letter. General Rose urges

'.^restramt- iin General Mladic.
: He: writes: "If our troops are
'deliberately .engaged by fire,
then .we have to respond, no
. matter who it was that opened
fire. I arnsure that as a soldier
you will understand this point
of view.

. “These are difficult times for
everyone, and we must not
allow local tactical-level inci¬
dents to undermine the road to
peace. 1 urge you new to give
orders accordingly."The letter
is signed by hand, “Yours
sincerely. Michael Rose".

Colonel Tim Spicer, spokes¬
man for General Rose, said in
Sarajevo last night; “1 am not
prepared to discuss the whys
and wherefores of why the
letter was sent It is a letter
written privately to General
Mladic"

In a separate letter to The
Times today. General Rose
emphasises that the UN mis¬
sion in Bosnia is “principally
one of peacekeeping, not peace
enforcement”. He says that
Bosnia is “fast returning to
reality”, and that “injudicious
.use of force would take the
mission across that line which
divides peace from war".

Russia last night called for
measures to halt the govern¬
ment-led attacks on Serbs
around Bihac The attack by
Bosnian forces is “a challenge
to the UN" which “shows that
the Muslims have decided to
resolve die conflict by arms",
Grigori Karasin, a Foreign
Ministry spokesman, said in
Moscow. “It would be catas¬
trophic if nothing were done to
stop it"

In Bonn, Germany’s chief
prosecutor was quoted as say¬
ing that the authorities are
investigating 51 Serbs accused
of war crones in former
Yugoslavia.

if the Yugoslav war crimes
tribunal in The Hague asks to
take over tiie cases, Germany
is likely to grant the request,
although first it will have to
amend its laws, Kay Nehm,
the chief prosecutor, said in an
interview with Stem. The
magazine said that all 51
suspects were ethnic Serbs,
tot did not say if they were all
Bosnian Serbs.

Letters, page 19

Pietro Pacdani, a convicted serial killer, holding up a picture of Christ as he protests his innocence in a Florence court

Elderly peasant gets life term for
‘Monster of Florence’ killings

A COURT found guilty and sentenced to
life imprisonment an elderly peasant
yesterday on charges of being the
sadistic “Monster of Florence" who
killed and mutilated 14 people in the hills
around the Tuscan city.

The eight Assize court jury members
— two judges and six popular jurors —
began their deliberations on Saturday
on the case against Pietro Pacdani. 69.
and crowds of curious citizens gathered
outside the court building yesterday
anxious to learn the outcome. The trial
divided Italians between those who
believed in his guilt or innocence.

Pacdani vigorously protested his in¬
nocence and wept as the sentence was
read out and beamed to millions of
Italians watching on television. He said
be had had a premonition in a dream
that be would be deared and planned to
work as a gardener in a monastery if
released. He brandished a saint’s picture

From John Phillips in rome

in court last Saturday when he told
judges in a final plea he was “as
innocent as Christ on the cross”.

In tiie killings, the murderer left his
mark on women victims by cutting off
their pubic hair and one breast The
prosecution had asked for a life sentence
to be handed down to Pacdani for eight

Rome: Doctors in the southern
Italian port of Bari have reported
ten confirmed cases of cholera, but
authorities insist that there is no risk
of an epidemic. Most of the cases
have been blamed on seafood that
had been tainted by coastal sewage
outlets, but a woman, 35, from
Casamassima. 12 miles from Bari,
contracted the disease from green
salad containing cholera bacteria,
according to Raffade Costa, the
Health Minister.

double murders carried out on seven
courting couples and two German male
campers between 1968 and 1985. The
court found him guilty of all the killings
except for those of Barbara Locd and
Antonio Lo Bianco at the village of Signa
in 1968. Another suspect Stefano Mele,
admitted carrying out those killings.

Forensic experts believe that ad 16
murders were carried out with the same
Beretta pistol but police said it was
possible that Pacdani had been passed
the pistol by Mele. Foreigners killed by
the “Monster” included two Germans,
Horst Wtlhem Meyer and Uwe Rusch
Sens, both 24. killed in their caravan at
the village of Giogoli in 19S3. A French
couple. Nadine Mauriot, 36, and Jean
Michel Kraveichvili. 25, were killed in a
tent in 19S5. The assassin mutilated the
woman's breast and sent a piece of it to a
woman magistrate investigating the
string of murders.

PLO hails
Jordan’s
pledge on
Jerusalem
holy sites

From Christopher Walker
IN JERUSALEM

A POTENTIALLY violent dis¬
pute between Jordan and the
Palestine liberation Organis¬
ation over control of the Mus¬
lim holy sites in Israeli-
occupied East Jerusalem was
partially defused yesterday by
a switch in Jordan's policy.

The venerated sites in the
walled Old City, captured by
Israel from Jordan in 1967,
include the golden-topped
Dome of the Rock, recently
refurbished at King Husain of
Jordan's personal expense,
and the Al-Aqsa mosque. Is¬
lam’s third holiest shrine after
Mecca and Medina.

Speaking at the close of a
Middle East economic confer¬
ence in Morocco, Jordan's
Crown Prince Hassan an¬
nounced that Amman would
hand over control of the sites
to the Palestinians once they

Casablanca: Arabs and
Israelis left a landmark
business conference here
without Hiiirfiin g deals
tot confident they had
taken the first step to
rebuild the economy of
tiie Middle East and un¬
derpin emerging peace.
The three-day conference
of nearly 2.000 business
executives and govern¬
ment officials from 61
countries issued a “Casa¬
blanca Declaration”, but
outlined only the barest
details on how its aim<
would be achieved and
paid for. (Reuter)

had completed their peace
talks, due to begin in 1996, on
the final status of the holy city.
The talks will be complex and
fraught with difficulty and
could last several years.

Jordan's about-turn on tiie
future custodianship of die
sites, sacred to Muslims, was
welcomed by Faisal Hussani,
the PLO representative in East
Jerusalem. "I salute Crown
Prince Hassan for his clarifi¬
cation." he said.

But the move came as a
blow to Israel, which had been
hoping to play off .Arab rival¬
ries over the sites to boost its
claim to political sovereignty
ewer the whole city.

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f thought.
Office has

GOOD NEWS,
that the Patent
extended its responsibilities to
cover the patenting of sounds
and smells. The law now says
that so long as you can define,
on paper, a silly beeping noise
advertising insurance, or the
rivet and aldehyde notes of
Chanel No 5, you can claim it
forever as your own.

This is a great week for
those who have devised a
particularly artful “boing!"
and those who sell synthesised
nostalgia smells to theme
parks. These range from “Vi¬
king latrine" to "Bakery in
cobbled street with little boy
riding up it in fiat bar, and no
doubt are now be protected fry
the full majesty of the law.

The principle must, of

course, be extended. There is
altogether too much imitation,
plagiarism, sincere flattery,
witty derivation and down¬
right robbery in public life. We
dance a slavish conga behind
the few people with original
ideas. Patents would help to
enforce fresh thinking and
discourage the random spread
of half-baked fashionableness.
Think of the confusion that
would have been averted if the
first publisher to invent big.
gold-embossed shiny letters
on paperbacks had slapped a
patent on die idea.

But now that noses and
smells crane under die copy¬
right laws, die scope is excit¬
ingly wide. Tones of voice, for
example, could be protected.
Remember the way John

Fortunes would be made if we had
to pay a price for plagiarism

Humphry®, after a
year on BBC’S To¬
day, started to sound
so bke Brian Red¬
head that Brian used
to observe that some¬
times he listened to
tapes and couldn't
tell if it was he or his
partner asking the
questions. The rot
could never have set

in if there was a _

strict patent on faux-
ncdf neo-Geordie lifts at the
aid of sentences. Nor would
we have Paxmanitis, in which
every other local radio report-

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er practises pained
incredulity in the
mirror and starts
questions “So are
you telling roe.. .T.

Programme plan¬
ners could be forced
into freshness, too.-
No longer would rate
television company,
crazed with envy of
die other for having
drought of putting a
married couple on a
sofa, be so pathetic as to cobble
up a fake married couple of
their own. No longer would
networks behave like covetous

siblings, desperate in wm to

possess the other’s treasures: a
blonde weather girl, a yoof
presenter with a bad a trade of
mange, a big. warm Jewish
chat hostess, a play about
lesbians. They could think up
their own ideas.

IN politics, we should patent a
lot of tilings, if only to stop
them proliferating. No longer
need we watch die dread
Portillo haircut spreading
across the Conservative
backbenches. Never again
would anyone, like Frier
Liliey, revive the idea of doing
a laboured rewrite of “to be or
not to be" at conference-
journalists, of course,
would be hard hit. Where
would we be without gim¬

micks stolen shamelessly from
other journalists? How would
the Sunday papers survive
without such cricks a* die
profile interview m which me
first half consists of a knock¬
about account of how hard it
was to get hold of the chap? Or
if The Tatler. bade in the
1970s. had thought to copy¬
right the idea of party pictures
with sneering comments un¬
derneath? __

As for the Patent Office
proviso that before you can

daim something as your own,

it must be capable w hang
described in words, that poses
no problem. Anything can be
described if the writer is
desperate enough; and there
would be a lot of us desperate
hnrire out there, for hire.

‘I used to
call myself a
socialist —
now I don’t
know what
it means’

Arnold Wesker tells Julia Llewellyn Smith
of the problem of being a cultural icon when
the National won’t perform your plays

A rnold Wesker is die Mick
Jagger of the literary world.
In the 19605, he was the
king of the swingers, a
dark, intense working-class hero; one
of the beautiful people who marched
to ban the bomb and who, along with
Osborne and Pinter, produced a
string of mould-breaking plays that
snatched British drama away from
the country mansions and into the
tenements.

Bui like Jagger. Wesker, 62. re¬
fused to go gracefully. Instead of
retiring on the proceeds of his trilogy.
Chicken Soup with Barley, Roots and
Tm Talking About Jerusalem — A
level set texts that are regularly
revived — he is insisting on a place in
the spotlight He continues to write
prolificafly and embarrasses direc¬
tors who reject his latest work by
demanding that they spell out their
reasons for refusal.

He has been grumbling softly for
years, but now in his autobiography
As Much as / Dare he has exploded,
stridently attacking Richard Eyre,
the National Theatre’s director, for
ignoring him. “I sense within the
profession a nervous terror of me," he
writes. “What is this plague which I
fail to recognise but obviously marks
me like Cain? I search around as one
does for stains on a shirt"

So Eyre, who has been soft-soaping
Wesker for years with replies along
the lines of “not for us aid boy. but do
keep in touch", has had to come out
and say: “What I meant... was, I
don’t like the play sufficiently to do
it" How terribly, embarrassingly
frank. And how gullible of Wester
not to know a “get lost" when he sees
one.

Not only has Wesker been exiled

professionally, in Dare he reveals
that he has also been cast out by his
family, not altogether unreasonably,
given that four years ago he fell in
love with a Norwegian friend.
“Though I didn’t fall out of love with
Dusty [his wife] our 35-year-old
marriage went reeling ... I know
neither love affair can be sustained.”

As a result of this, “my beloved first
bom" Lindsay Joe, a DJ For the radio
station Kiss FM, refused to talk to
him or to let him see his grandson.
Wesker wrote his autobiography
alone in the Welsh hills.

He is back in London now to
promote it and is staying at his large,
pretty house in an unfashionable
comer of north London. A tantalising
postcript to the book says that his son
has forgiven him. Does this mean, I
wonder, that Dusty — the model for
the immortal Beatie, the heroine of
Roots and. in my eyes, a saint — has
too?

To my delight. Dusty—every bit as
blonde and jolly as I hoped — opens
die front door. Wizrie (her name for
him) will be here any second. And
here is the man 1 have been reading
about for the past week, small and
stocky, all in black with round, gold
specs: the very model of left-bank
chic, nothing like the flailing Old-
Testament prophet 1 had imagined.

Wesker had hoped to surprise me.
“Didn’t you expect me to be different?
fteopie always do." he says, in his
quiet, slightly camp voice that belies
his East End origins. “They say: T
read that you are very difficult, that
directors have a hard rime with you.’
It begins as a small snowball and
runs down the hill. Bui hn lovely to
work with. People think I am
difficult because 1 actually listen to

Arnold Wesker—today he looks die very model of left-wing chic

them. So then when you disagree,
they are hurt”

His reputation as a cantankerous
prima donna is only equalled by his
image as a wild-eyed leftie. “It's the
problem of the frozen image that
many writers suffer from,” he sighs,
playing with his silvery chest hairs.

In any case, the image was never
accurate. Even Wesker's earliest

plays are politically ambiguous, oth¬
erwise they could not have endured.
In Chicken Soup with Barley. Sarah’s
commitment to the party cannot
prevent her family disposing and the
Bryant family in Roots are too
lumpen to even begin to appreciate
their daughter's enlightenment ’ .

Nonetheless, Wesker was firmly
allied with the left marching from

Aldermaston, going to jail as part of
the Committee of 100’s civil disobedi¬
ence campaign and founding Centre
42 , an organisation with the lofty aim
of making culture accessible to the
masses. But he has newer joined a
political party and confesses to being
a Telegraph reader who supported
the Ftifidands War.

“Was I ever really a socialist?" he
muses now, sipping tea in the pot-
planted conservatory. “! called my¬
self one in those days because there
was no other way to describe the
values I believed in. I wouldni now
because I doit know what it means."
Is be disenchanted. then,' yritii the
Blairite designer socialism? “I don't
' really know much about it. partly
because I have no television inWales.
There’s a Fabian pamphlet, by Blair
that 1 keep meaning to read but I
haven’t got round to it"

In fact Wesker's concerns are far
more personal than politkaL He is
overjoyed to have madertitings up
•• with Lindsay Joe and is now, as I
hoped, working on Dusty, who is
dattering in the kitchen to the strains
of Kiss FM. M Ith trying to persuade
her to come to Paris with me where
the trilogy is in rehearsal." And are
you succeeding? “75 per cent of the

*>■'4 I'm lovely to
work with. People
think I am
difficult because I
actually listen ?

way.” he says coyly. Ke elings to the
belief that posterity will reward him,
r eminding readers■ tfrat ■“Mozart’s
inability to believe fee might be a
failure... was an essaotialpart of his

Abroad, at b&M&i&s always had
a following. But here ^re are plans
to stage his LetAriqaS m^it eradd
to turn The Wtote^-ritra^y Tevived
to huge acclaim qy^&Royai Court,
into a music al •• '

If anything can Testore;his reput¬
ation. it will be As MudtosXDore, a
beautifully written book, which
worte as bothaJewisfriaimfyhistoiy
and a disarmingly persanafmemoar.
ffiffie book. Wesker comes across not
so much as an aggresm.up&rt. but
as touchingly naive and genuinely
bewildered that bis hpnesfy is per¬
ceived as arrogance. ‘

It is tins inability to play the game,
to tell white lies, fo be understated,
that puts British 4>acks up. Wesker
agrees, but be aiso thmks there is a
simpler solution. “I’m pigeon-chested
and l drink that gives an -air of
cockiness." I hadn't noticed, because .
he has been sitting down, but later,
standing in die kitchen drinking
vodka. I see that he does indeed
swagger unintentionally.. Poor
Wesker, scorned for so long because
of his posture. Perhaps next time he
meets Richard Eyre, he should
remain slouched behind a desk.

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Last week’s fatal jet fighter crash has given America’s military conservatives the ammunition they wanted

Top Gun types take aim at women flyers

T he F-14 Tomcat is not
the easiest fighter jet to
fly. On average, one
American pilot dies each year
when the Tomcat fails or
crashes on training missions.
This year, however, the Ameri¬
can navy lost its first woman
fighter pilot Lieutenant Kara
Hultgreen. when her Tom car
crashed into the sea.

Although much of the na¬
tion gave Lt Hultgreen the
heroic obituary she deserved
last week, for some military
traditionalists her death has
provided an excuse to attack,
once again, the very concept of
allowing women in the cock¬
pit The navy opened the job to
women in April 1993, but with
Lt Hultgreen ■$ death, the ser¬
vice has just one remaining
female combat pilot

Days after Lt Hub green’s
accident Californian newspa¬
pers and television stations
started receiving angry faxes
from male aviators stationed
ar her base near San Diego,
questioning 29-year-old Lt
Hultgreen"s abilities and her
scores in flight tests. Conserva¬
tive radio presenters across
the country died her death as
proof that "women are better
fitted to serve drinks on a
plane than pilot one".

The Top Gun fraternity, as
portrayed in the Tom Cruise
film, is an exclusive one. and
some male pilots are still less
than keen on having mon¬
strous women invade their
regiments. Others seem sup¬
portive. Lt Matthew Klemish,
die radar intercept officer who
was a passenger in Lt Hull-

green’s plane and
successfully ejected
into the sea. says:

“She was very
highly regarded."

Lt Hultgreen tried
to stay at the con¬
trols to right the
plane and ejected
seconds later. Her
body has not yet
been found. The
navy has suggest¬
ed there were “en¬
gine difficulties"
with the plane, but
full details will not
be known until it is
salvaged.

Hie navy is des¬
perate to improve its standing
after a sexual harassment
scandal forced some senior
offices to resign, and having a

Kara Hultgreen:
died when her
F-14 stalled

few female faces
up front is pood
public - relations.
But male pilots,
who all wish to
remain anony¬
mous. have, com¬
plained that the
first ■- women
allowed into com¬
bat have been giv¬
en preferential
treatment
In U Hull- ■
green’s case, she
was narrowly re¬
jected in her first
attempt to qualify
as a fighter pilot
along with 25 per
cent of the men who applied.
She passed die same test easily
in July and was assigned to
Fighter Squadron 213. Her

commander. Captain Tom
Sobiek. told The New York
Times: “We were a litrie appre¬
hensive at first but sheksew
what she was doing. She was a
really fine aeroplane driver."

Ironically Lt Hultgreen.
who has a degree in aerospace
engineering, was one of the
officers who testified at the
Congressional hearings three
years ago on whether all the
forces should allow women in
combat At the same time,,
generals including Merrill
MdPfcak. the US Air Force
Chief of Staff, made it dear the
ride was not going to be easy:
“I am not eager to increase
exposure of our women to
additional risk.” he «tayt ; and
confessed he would rather
have a less qualified man
Hying a combat aircraft than

a better qualified woman.

The fact is, had Kara
Hultgreen been a man, her
death would have merited a
brief paragraph and no de¬
bate; Instead, it has been
blown oat of all p ro po rt i on
iron a huge black mark
against women in the milirary
frontfine, with the added irri¬
tation that the' exact circum¬
stances of her death are not yet
known,- Suddenly there are
• imputations even in Britain,
where the RAF has a dozen or
so female pilots in training,
none of whom is qualified yet
to fly fitgxtar jets: Meanwhile,
in America, one.woman who.
no longer has a voice is
dwuldermg the burden for
her whole sex. • - ,

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painted. But what about those
women who Gve outside the
world of fashion?

Whenever fashion refocuses

itself, it becomes necessary to
pick through the deluge of
images and information, and
decide what is viable." To
pinpoint the crucial changes.

Studying the new language
fashion pundits are using can.
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THE TIMES WE DNESDAY NOVEMBER 2 1994

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Alan Coren

■ Rare finds like these
cannot just be kept beneath
the rug

I am sitting on a goldmine. You can’t see
that it's a goldmine, of course, because
like all good goldmines it lies far below
the surface; almost a full inch, at a guess. In
order not to have to guess, you would need to
pick up the carpet, and if you did that you
would find yourself standing on the gleam¬
ing ore itself, and get into no end of trouble.
English Heritage heavies would have you
out of there so fast your feet wouldn’t touch
the ground, because the ground they risked
touching is very precious to English Heri¬
tage. The ground is lino.

The scene now shifts to Newcastle-upon-
Tyne’s Trinity House, where the Brother¬
hood of Mariners, charged with keeping the
place shipshape and Bristol-fashion. wants
to do a spot of redecorating. This involves
taking the old lino up. because it is full of
holes and little casts a bigger blight on mari¬
time knees-ups than having honoured guests
suddenly going down by the stem during a
hornpipe; but it cannot be taken up, because
English Heritage has slapped a preservation
order on it. For this is not any old lino, it is
rare old lino, and “historic decoration", says
EH"s Andrew Saidi. “is no less important
than bricks and mortar".

Tell me. do you catch that unmistakable
whiff of worm which tells you that a can of
them has just been opened? Can what we are
looking at here be anything less than a
watershed in the history of domestic refurb¬
ishment? Are we not standing at the cross¬
roads of doing up? Beneath the carpet on
which I am jotting this lies the stuff we
covered 20-odd years aga original to the
house 50 years before that, a fetching ochre
base patterned, as I recollect, in blue and red
rectangles, very Mondrian, very Bauhaus. a
prime example of 1920s Art lino: were it to
mm up (any day now. if I know my canny
BBC) on the Flooring Road Show, the ex¬
perts would turn cartwheels. And I have
three concealed floorfuls of similar vintage.
Should I not be a happy man?

1 am a petrified man. If EH finds out. I am
done for. They will be round here with a
restore-or-die warrant in a trice, they will
have my snug Axminster off. they will leave
me with floors you stick to in summer, freeze
to in winter, and break your neck on when
hurtling between bath and phone. But that is
not the half of it, for if lino has come into its
inheritance, can lincrusta be far behind? To
save you trawling the OED. its etymology is
linum (flax) * crusta (rind), but that is not
because, in 382. the Romans did their
premises out in tasteful flax-rind, it is be¬
cause. in 1882. a Mr Walton, not content with
inventing linoleum for floors, went on to
invent lincrusta for walls, so that when my
house was built some 40 years later it could
be lined with an embossed paper so impervi¬
ous to die chisel that the only course open to
those not wishing to live with mud-brown
Maltese crosses was to overpaint or over¬
paper, but never so successfully that an Eng¬
lish Heritage prodnose could not spot its
subcutaneous ghost, list it and insist that it
be stripped bade to pristine funereality.

H e might suffer a crux, mind, in the
one room where the lincrusta has
been hidden, thanks to the strips of
polychrome hessian gummed to it in 1972.
Hessian was very big, in 1972. It was every¬
where. It was what wall-covering was all
about Strip it off, and a mural era would be
expunged from the heritage. So there is a
nub. here, is there not? Can any of us ever
confidently redecorate again? It is not merely
a matter of thinking carefully before we
crassly bang in low-flush suites when it
means enskipping lofted cisterns, their
charming chains, their jolly squashbalf
grips, or fill fireplaces with slimline radia¬
tors. or replace stone kitchen sinks with
aluminium, or conceal halogen pin-points in
bare ruin’d ceilings where late the sweer
bulbs hung, or perpetrate any of the other
ravages involved when progress supervenes
tradition, it is also a matter of thinking care¬
fully what we do when yesterday's progress
becomes today's tradition, and then tomor¬
row’s Grade I listing. How long will h be be¬
fore it is an offence to remove a satellite dish?

There is a gum-tree here, and English
Heritage is perforce stuck in its branches. I
have no answer, but my heart bleeds for
those who go down to the sea in Newcastle:
for they occupy their business in greater
waters than they could have imagined.

In praise of secrecy

Benn-style openness would mean
anarchy and government paralysis

T ony Benn declared on Monday
that he would publish the
proceedings of the Commons
Privileges Committee whether
or not a majority of its members agreed.
He said he was acting in the tradition of
Hansard and Cobbett He did not give a
fig for the conventions of the House
of Commons. He was Honest Tony,
answerable only to the people.

The catalyst for Monday’s argument
was bizarre. The House of Commons
cannot meet nowadays without falling
foul of Parkinson’s Law of Triviality. In
a week that must decide the future of
the Post Office — and with it the last
shreds of Tory radicalism — MPS were
stamping their feet over who faxed what
to whom. The sums involved were so
paltry as to defy the word corruption.
Students of the absurd were left to the
exquisite spectacle of Jonathan Aitken
and The Guardian’s editor wrestling
with each other and their consciences
over a brunette and a Paris hotel bill. A
Parliament that yields such gems is not
worthless.

But who should police this nonsense?
Mr Benn raises a point of order. “My
first responsibility." he says, “is to those
who have elected me to Parliament, who
are entitled to know what is being done
in their name. In my judgment, that
duty must take precedence over any
conventions of the House." He will
therefore take notes of confidential
meetings of the Privileges Committee,
on which he sits. These he will publish.
Followers of Mr Bean’s career know
th3t this is no idle boast.

I think we can set aside, as Mr
Benn would say, the unworthy reflection
that he is currently promoting his
breach of Cabinet secrets on radio. 1 also
pass over, as Mr Benn would say, any
thought of an undeclared interest, let
alone an invitation to the media to
bid for the publishing rights. I am sure
“The Secrets of Committee Room 16"
have already been promised to Viz or
perhaps The Big Issue. Given- the
committee's future'agenda this could
mean serious money.

Hie case for more openness is. as al¬
ways. superficially strong. A Privileges
Committee that meets in private has so
far proved inadequate in regulating the
abuse of Parliament by MPs lobbying
for commercial, trade union and other
interests. But there are other ways of
calling the committee to account than by
turning its members into television stars
and its witnesses into victims. (For
instance, the two front benches could
collude to sack the members.)

This would be no timid select commit¬
tee pretending to scrutinise government
policy under the eagle eye of the whips.
It would be an American-style bear gar¬
den. with lights, cameras and expensive
lawyers. It would deal not with “issues”
but with a far more explosive commod¬
ity. famous people at bay. Media
pressure would feed the committee a
constant diet of sexual and financial
scandals, dodgy liaisons, petty bribery
and corruption. The media would, in
effect, be judging each case as it went
along — as they did the Scott inquiry
into arms-for-Iraq.

Openness is meant by its supporters
to project Parliament
as stem self-regu¬
lator. its fierce disci¬
pline made manifest
on primetime tele
vision. Subpoenas
would speed on their
way to capture such
exotic fruit as Max
Clifford’s kiss-and-tell
girls, Mr Aitken’s
franc-fisted brunette,
millionaire lobbyists. Guardian editors
and gossip columnists. They would
come running. Parliament would have a
dash of glamour. The tabloid ethos
would have percolated the inner sanc¬
tums of the Palace of Westminster. The
public would be vastly entertained. But
for Sir Edward Healh to believe, as he
said yesterday, that the Commons
would thus “re-establish itself in ihe
higher standing of the public” is a joke.

Two dubious principles are here in
play. One is that justice must always be
open to be fair. The other is there is no
such thing as bad publicity. The best
cure for bad democracy, said Mencken,
is more democracy. Blow away the cob¬
webs. Pull down the veils. Reveal all. If
televising the Commons did no good,
then why not televise the Cabinet? That
way the public would really appreciate
the care and effort that goes into govern¬
ment. Ministers would be more popular
and their decisions “better". Indeed, go
further and publish minutes of Cabinet
committees, of bilaterals. of ministerial
briefings. Why should Mr Born's elec¬
tors be cheated of anything? They have a
right to know “what is being done in
their name".

Such good intentions pave every road

to hell. Hie Leader of the House. Tony
Newton, was justified this week in
pointing out that holding privileges
hearings in public would deny the
“accused" and witnesses a fair hearing.
Under the cover of parliamentary privi¬
lege, MPs would be able to repeat any
gossip or rumour, and the press would
eagerly report it under the same
privilege. Those accused would feel
obliged in self-defence to hire expensive
lawyers. Some sessions might be in
camera. But why not all? Hus is not a
law court It is a club administering its
rules. Public hearings would inflate
what is a domestic tribunal into a
national show trial.

MPs should worry
about the spreading
stain of this sort of
"virtual justice". In the
case of arms-for-Iraq.
Lord Justice Scott has
turned an administra¬
tive inquiry into an
attenuated public trial,
with himself as prose¬
cuting counsel, judge
and jury. The same goes for the West¬
minster district auditor. I carry no brief
for Lady Porter and her Westminster
Council colleagues, but they are current¬
ly at the mercy ofa kangaroo court They
are being “tried" in public by a man who
has already found against them ar an
earlier investigation. This is the accoun¬
tancy equivalent of lynch law.

To Mr Benn. all this must be benign,
because openness in public administra¬
tion is an absolute good. Secrecy is
the cardinal sin of democratic govern¬
ment But he is wrong is supposing that
openness is itself a cure. Secrecy
and openness are opposite extremes.
They are thesis and antithesis. In a
democracy they require a synthesis
and Mr Benn has none. He is not an
institutional reformer. He is an anar¬
chist an enemy of political institutions, a
believer in government by spontaneous
public action. His heroes cannot be the
conservatives Samuel Johnson or Wil¬
liam Cobbett They must be Proudhon
and Bakunin.

The reason for Walpole’s opposition to
the reporting of Parliament was not
spurious. He felt ministers should be
able to share some of die confidences of
government with supporters and oppo¬

nents and not be vulnerable to selec¬
tive reporting. When Parliament be¬
came open, those confidences did not
suddenly becomepublic property. Hiey
vanished into the Cabinet Room., In
recent years, that room has been
exposed to leaks and memoirs. As a
result, confidences have retreated yet
further, to kitchen cabinets, private
cabals and conversations within Down¬
ing Street Confidence is the gjue of
go vernm ent, as of any organisation
committed to decisive action. Without it
decision freezes.

M odem Washington is
much.lauded by British
enthusiasts for open gov¬
ernment I cannot flunk
why. Public hearings on congressional
ethics have been held for decades. I
know of no evidence that they have im¬
proved either the ethics or the public rep¬
utation of Congress. The steady dis¬
closure of White House secrets has not
made the presidency more decisive or
courageous. As Bob Woodward’s recent
exposure of Bill Clinton’s team makes
plain, the opposite is the case. When
asked to make a derision, American
presidents are like rabbits caught in
headlights. They dare not move.

I know that more openness in govern¬
ment has the best tunes, and journalists
are expected to sing them at every oppor¬
tunity. Certainly the executive must be
accountable, actions must be explained,
the press must be vigilant and MPs
must be passably honest But how much
openness this requires before it under¬
mines derisiveness and group account¬
ability is unclear. Democracy depends
on political institutions, and institutions
collapse if not bound by agreed rules.
Those rules take the form of codes,
protocols, conventions — the messy,
maddening disciplines that keep people
working in concert without tearing at
each other's throats.

Mr Berm's chosen institution is Parlia¬
ment Parliament has a quaint rule that
when a majority of MPs decide some¬
thing, the rest accept that decision. It is
the basis on which Mr Berm and his col¬
leagues were elected. Yet when he got
beaten on Monday he did not resign his
seat He tore up the rule. That is why he
is an anarchist

Or perhaps, as I- suspect, there is
really a tabloid journalist inside Mr
Benn longing to break free. He knows he
has a scoop burning a hole in his knap¬
sack. On Monday he exploited it
briDiantiy. When be retires. 1 bet he
writes a column for the Mirror.

Simon

Jenkins

No sex

NOT CHASTITY-BELTS exactly,
but moves are afoot to protect
Cambridge’s first-year ingenues
from the sexual depredations of
their elders. The authorities of
Christ’s College. I learn, are
taking the lead". After rum Wings,
the JCR president. Annilese
Miskimmon. has advised second
and third-year undergraduates to
stay away from freshers.

Aids and the risks of teenage
girl students suing the college for
sexual harassment apparently
provoked the “hands-off" orders.
But Annilese insists that this is
not a killjoy measure. “We did
not mean to be entirely serious
about it, but we do have a ‘big
brothers and sisters' scheme,
which is intended to protect
freshers' interests."

An inddenf at Jesus College at
the beginning of October, when an
undergraduate sustained serious
injuries falling off a balcony
ar a party, dearly worried many
colleges. As enormous quantities
of alcohol are traditionally con¬
sumed during first week, there
has been a general crackdown on
the infamous staircase initiation
parties.

please

But an optimistic undergradu¬
ate at Trinity College tells me “All
the colleges are cracking down on
student behaviour this year — but
love and beer will find a way.”

• Merriest lunch table yesterday
at the china retailer Thomas
Goode's new Mayfair restaurant
was strictly female. Ivana Trump.
Mona Bauwens and girlfriends
were supping champagne and
Chablis. “We are talking about

mengiggled Bauwens. ",And we
are still celebrating Ivana's
engagement ."

Saving face

RESPLENDENT in an enormous
Garrick Club bow-tie. Judge Ste¬
phen Tumim was hovering proud¬
ly over his daughter Matilda’s
paintings — scenes of the Orkney
Islands painted on pieces of drift¬
wood — at the Contemporary Art
Society fair at the Festival Hall on
Monday night “She doesn't get
her talent from me." he chortled.
“Must be from her mother."

A large, rather abstract portrait
of the judge himself by chain¬
smoking artist Maggi Hambling
caused his judicial brow to wrin¬
kle. howeven “l can see my bow-
tie and my wig. But what is going
on where my face should be?"

Hands on

THE CZECHS may benefit from
an unexpected bonus as our new
man in Prague. Sir Michael Bur¬
ton. settles in — especially if they
suffer sore limbs or similar mala¬
dies. Sir Michael's wife. Henrietta,
hopes to practise on them her
skills in oriental massage.

On Sir Michael’s transfer from

DIARY

our mission in Berlin. Lady Bur¬
ton stayed in London to complete
her examinations in Shiatsu and
Chinese medicine. After scoring
more than 00 per cent in most cate¬
gories. she’s ready to start work
professionally. That is. she says
“when my diplomatic duties are
taken care of".

Bottled up

TUT-TUTS at the Ritz on Monday
at the launch of Selina Hastings's
biography of Evelyn Waugh.
Guests were rationed to one glass
of champagne. Lords Gowrie,
Longford and Jenkins and Baro¬
ness (P.D.) James gallantly moved
omo wine, but Sir Robin Day
snorted: “The champagne has run
out* T only got one glass. What
would Evelyn have made of that?"

Sir Peregrine Worsthome re¬
torted: “He would have gone
straight behind the bar and de¬
manded more. He wouldn't have
put up with it.”

•Jo/m Major was not the only
European leader to suffer a diffi¬
cult moment with his EC Commis¬
sioners. In the final hours, Silvio
Berlusconi named the flamboyant
Signora Emma Bonino as lialys
second commissioner. Aides dis¬
patched to deliver the news even¬
tually found herclad in sandwich-
boards in front of New York's
United Nations HQ. touting for
funds for her Radical Party.

Raise a glass

CHOKING BACK the odd nostal¬
gic tear. Sir Edward Heath will re¬
turn to Chequers today for the first
time since he left office. He is
visiting the Prime Minister’s coun¬
try home with Lord Callaghan to
study the new stained-glass win¬
dows bearing their coats of arms
in the Long Gallery. All former
Prime Ministers are commemo¬
rated in a window once a heraldic
crest has been devised. Only Bar¬
oness Thatcher's is now awaited.

Hie two elder statesmen will
lunch with Norma Major, who is
still beavering away writing her

Arms of Edward Heath

book on the house’s history.

“I will be very interested to see
what they have done to it," rumi¬
nates Heath. "I completely re¬
stored it. of course. I entertained so
many people there. When Presi¬
dent Nixon came, the Queen flew
down from Balmoral — the first
and only time the Sovereign has
visited the house.”

• Labour's old hands have coined
an acronym for members of the
1992 intake promoted by Tony
Blair as party whips in prepara¬
tion far ministerial office:, YJS
(yuppie training scheme}.

P-H-S

Paper

thin

morality

Paul Johnson on

Peter Preston's act
of turpitude

L ast week 1 was in New York,
where the natives are fascinated
and appalled by the enormities of
the British media. I was asked “Is there
nothing to which your newspapers will
not stoop?" “Oh." I said airily, “they
draw the line at murder and forgery."

Well. I was wrong. One of than. The
Guardian, does not draw the line at
forgery. Its editor. Peter Preston, calls it
by a convenient euphemism, “subter-. -
fuge“. defends it hotly, presents it as jusr-
part of a journalist's daily work, and
amiw anyone who dares to critidse
him of raising “a bit of a red herring".

I have a photocopy of the “subter¬
fuge". ft is as plain a piece of forgery as
any prosecuting counsel could wish to
present to a court It isa piece of
Commons writing-paper with the print¬
ed superscription: “From: Jonathan
Aitken MP”. So tbe_paper was misused
tty The Guardian in the first place, a
point which has incensed the Speaker,
Betty Boothroyd, and other MPs. But the
br each of parliamentary privilege is a
minor issue. For the letter itself, asking
the accounts department of the Paris
Ritz to forward a copy of Jonathan
Aitken’s bill, purports to have been
written by Aitken himself It is a tissueof
lies*. “My bQl was debited to the account
of my friend. Mr Ayas... Regrettably I
seem to have mislaid my copy which I
require for pereanal accounting rea-
sons."Hie object was to obtain a copy of
the document which Preston needed to
make his case against Aitken. The letter
concludes -with a forged handwritten
. signatur e: “pp Jeremy Wright, private
secretary". Wright is a senior dvfl
servant at the Ministry of Defence, so
the letter is a double forgery.

Preston defends his conduct on three
grounds. He says the^forgeiy did not in¬
volve misrepresentation since it was “an
internal exchange of faxes between peo¬
ple who both knew the true situation", fa
that case, why resort to a fraudulent
letter? Plainly, it was intended to deceive
someone, then or later. Next Preston
tries to laugh off the forgery, saying it
was crude. But most forgeries are crad^L
when examined in retrospect Any City
solicitor can tell you that.

Preston’s third defence is that The
Guardian was anty seeking “to protect
its sources". This is a frequent and glib
seffjustification a newspaper which
is doing something: it knows to be
wrong. Sometimes -h-. tardy in my
experience—the explanation is justified.

In this case it is obviousty false.
Preston's source for his stoty was none
other than the owner of the Paris Ritz.
Mohamed Al-Fayed. Al-Fayed is a
masterful employer, who is plainly in no
need of protection from his servile staff.
The only reason The Guardian forged
the letter was that Al-Fayed asked it to.

Mohamed Al-Fayed has bear invol¬
ved for many years in a bitter row with
•Tiny” Rowland over tire manner in
which the Fayed brothers got possession
of Hamods. The upshot was that Mo¬
hamed Al-Fayed was branded a liar tty
the report of a DTI inquiry. Al-Fayed
was so embittered by tbe charge that he
has thirsted for revenge against the
Government ever since. One way he has
tried to settle the score is to corrupt
Conservative and then expose
them, on tbe humbugging grounds that
he is “concerned” by the decline of public
standards in Britain. Another way is to
entrap journalists and so oblige them to
help his vendetta. If Rowland had The
Observer in his pocket why should not
he, Al-Fayed, have The Guardian ?

W xiy iiunr ElCHUU, WUU D Oil

editor of long experience, fell
into Al-Fayed "s yawning and
obvious elephant trap is hard to explain.
But he is in it, right up to his neck.
Forgery is a serious crime. In 18th-
century Britain it was held to be, in a
commercial nation, one of the most
dangerous of all crimes, and was
punished by death. This was the penalty
paid by Dr Johnson’s acquaintance, the
Rev William Dodd, chaplain-ih-ordi-
nary to George HI, who got into
financial difficulties and in desperation
forged tfie name of his former pupil.
Lord Chesterfield, on a bond. But if
forgery is especially wrong in a clergy¬
man, is it not equally outrageous —
perhaps more so — in a newspaper
which has a particular responsibility to
p ublis h the tr uth? Forgery rrawit to be a
capital offence in the 19th century, but
the law continues to punish it heavily.
And Preston's peril does not end here,
for he a ppears to have engaged not just
in forgery but in conspiracy to commit
forgery.

It wffl be interesting to see how
frest on proposes to extricate himself
from the almighty mess into which he

has plunged himself and his honourable
newspaper. Defending Dr Dodd. Dr
Johnson argued that his offence “has no
very deep dye of turpitude. It corrupted
no man's principles; it attacked no
man’s Irfe-. Preston’s forgery, it seems to

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roectiajieeto harm a democratically

destroy, if not
me hfethen the reputation and career of
3. minister,

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premctMMis of ever'ingher interest rates they
tear from tte Ci^. The rational observer
would be wrong. Eddie George, the Gov¬
ernor of the Bank of England, seemslikely to
recommend a further increase in interest
rates to the Chancdior, if not at tiieir
meeting this morning, then next month.

• The reason.why the Bank is pressing for
higher base rates wouM delight a medieval
schoolman: the Government has promised

to reduce inflatkMi to the Iowa-half of its 1 to

4 per cent target range, that is toiSper cent
or less. -Ergo, says the Bank, the present
stance of policy, which implies Z5 per. cent
inflation, is not tough enoug h. Why not?
Because any forecast of inflation involves a
considerable margin, of error. Therefore a
government winch follows the policy most
likely to produce25per oentinflation (which
the Bank concedes the Government is now
doing) could quitejpossiHy end up with a
Slightly higher inflation rate. The Bank’S
advice to the CtericeHaris therefore fikety to

run akrag thefoltowing lines: if you want to
establish your anti-inflationary “credibility”

. you must raise interest rates and go on
raising them. This sdSflageilation must
- continue .until the economy is so weakened
that nobody can imagine inflation rising
. above Z5 per cent ......

The Bank has done the country and the
Government an unexpected service by
making this approach to monetery policy so
. exptidt In arguing for ever-higher interest
rates, regardless of the broader impact on
the economy, Mr George is only doing the
^ job allotted by die Government to the Bank,

.. Unlike the Bundesbank and the American
Federal Reserve Board, which are constitu¬
tionally required to support broader nat-
.‘tonal economic objectives, the Bank has
been instructed solely to control inflation
. and ignore all such distractions'as employ¬
ment, investment exports and growth.

'Ihe Bank’s single^ninded fbcus on infla¬
tion is fine as long as it is merely a policy
adviser, adding its voice to others in
developing a balanced economic policy. In
principle, that is the Bank’s role. Monetary
decisions are ultimately made by the
• Chancellor. He must balance the nation’s
need for a strong and wdl-structured.
recovery against the Bank’s institutional
desire for ever-Iower inflation, regardless of
- economic circumstances and costs.

The trouble is that Kenneth Clarke,
despite his robust reputation, may not have
the courage or the experience to do this. Two
months ago, when the Bank pressed for the
last half-point increase in base rates, Mr
Clarke came up with no fewer than 11
reasons against it Nevertheless, after an
extra 24 hours’ reflection, the Chancellor lei
the Bank have its head. At some point Mr
Clarke will have to pluck-up the courage to
listen politely to Mr George’s deflationary
imprecations and then simply ignore them.
That time may not be far off

CARDINAL VIRTUES

The meft Iri fead Roman Catholicism into the next centuiy

The nooBriaiHBr of Mcnsigpar Thomas
Wirming,^foe Roman Catholic Archbishop of
Mjlasgow, as one of 30 new cardinals will
whig jby fo many Scots. Roman Cafooli-
dsm. espetiaifyinthewestof the country, fe
stifl apowei^ force and thenew cardinal—
only the todi to qonae foom Scotiand since
die Refarmalicm ,-^ man wbose lively

mSffeavahi^rfe^B^lfonfothe Sacred :
ObQege of Cardinal. Cartfin^ Warning
regards fosrvmuhafiraasanhdnd^
"nation" of SootML in joming Cardinal .
Hume as the two most senior Catholics in
Britain, he wiB taioe to Rome some of foe
rugged individnalistipsdzties fifr which, bis:
country is renowned. -

This doer not mean that the Ft^je has
chosen an Ardfosshop who is at odds with
the Pontiffs fir ml y t iatfitional views. On the
defining issues of contraception, abortion,
foe wnfoiation of women mid deference to
Church tradstion. Cardinal Winning; like
almost alT the. new cardinals, is a man
comfortable with the prevailing conservative
climate in Rook. The Pope indeed has now
appointed 100 of the 120 .members of foe
college; not surprisan^y, comparisons have
been made wffi foe United Stales Supreme
Court where presidents can and do try to
ensure that foar political philosophy lives
on beyond foefrtenn of office ^ appointing
justices who reflect thesr own views and -
values. ., _i. ' .. -:. : 1 ;

In foiling health, and irttreasingly con¬
cerned by what he sees as the^ debilitating
amorality of a secular werid. foe Pope
knows thalit win not beinany years before
the college uudstakes its most momentous
task: the etoctfon of a new F^ie who ;will set.

tite foture doctrinal oompass for the world’s
960million Roman Catholics. Talk of a line¬
up between conservatives and progressives
is, however, simplistic. Most cardinals are
men of profound and individual views; how
each would interpret foe spiritual authority
of foe papacy cannot be defined in advance,
~&s foeexmienant erample dfPc^je JohnXXm
made dear. What can be said with certainty
is that the has widened foe college's
range_ofex|terienoe, although there is still a
prepdndeRfcnce of Europeans. The Pope has
been influenced by his own experience in
. . rewaidinginenwlTO have stood as Qiristian
. witnesses agasist Communist oppression,
notably Monsignor Mikel Kolkp, the 92-
. year^rfd Albanian priest who spent 42 years
in labour camps. One appointment of dear
political significance is that of the Cuban
Archbishop, Jaime Ortega y Alairrino, a
man who has lorig advocated doser dialogue
between Havana and Washington and is
therefore wefl placed to reassert Catholic
influence in Cuba once Fidel Castro’S brand
of Ctommunism is overthrown.

For some Catholics, however, the choice is
still too narrow. They want to see more
.. rarHwials from Africa and Latin America,
: and miss especially foe appointment of
Monsignor Helder Camara, foe towering
fanner Archbishop erf Recife. For Pope John
' Paii however. Brad and much of the Third
World has become dangerously associated
wifo liberation theology and the challenge to
Vatican doctrine cm priestly celibacy and
other, f undamentals . The 30 new men
represent a powerful repository of spiritual
strength; at this stage in the Papacy it would
be unrealistic to lode, for any change in
- doctrinal balance as wefl.

TOURIST TRAPS

Where a lMelearning may be aless dangerous thing

The swift rescue of foe three Britons a nd an
American hired irtfo captivity by Kashmiri
militants is a profound relief to their famil¬
ies. So, despite foe loss, of two policemen’s
lives, will it be to the Indian goffemment But
it does nothmg to lessen foe sorrow of the
news from Q»TnhndBa that foe three Western
tourists captured in July were killed amcnifo
ago by foe Khmer Rouge. At foe same time

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rattan court of the murder of seven back¬
packers in the bush underline foe fact that

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So. erf coarse, is most teavd. Yopr
handbag is more Kkdy to be .snafifoed m
Rome than in Bombay- Many Amencao.^-
tes are more “dangerous" ^foah most Thud
Workl countries. But foe Westerners anten-
naeare often pooriy attuned todetect tronbte-
in unfamiliar envtronmaife Before foe ad¬
vent of mass tourism, eveiy voyage to dis¬
tant lands was an adventure. But travellers
voyaged sfowly. by boat irain ^ wen
mole. Tltey had time to aedmanse. foemr
selves to diflfersu cultures, diSsrem esgiect-
ations. They listened to local guid^. told
knew which towns were la wless, which
tribes were hostile. Nowadays tourists can
frget themselves to foe remotest parts erf foe
- globe in less than 24 hours. And when they
arrive, initial impressions may be
misleadmgjy rea 5 «nring: airpgrts and taxis
fade much foe same foe worid over.

Tourists m seanfo of novdty ^wffiTtofo
ever deeper, into oowaries avoided by mass-
market companies. Bu though they may

seek the frisson .of risk and the sense of
discovery, they are often unequipped to deal
with the disruption and Sometimes violence
- their presence may cause. In particular, they
may be naive about the extraordinary
temptation far. terrorists, hijackers and all
those seeking to confront their governments
to use Westerners as pawns.

Western governments now issue regular
travel advisories, warning tourists which
countries or regions to avoid The countries
concerned object strongly, and not rally
b ec ause they resent the inference that their
societies are unsafe Tburism is now a vital
earner of foreign currency, a single warning,
let alone a fadaappng. can scare away
mitt i ons erf dollars. Egypt, whose booming
industry has been devastated by Muslim
extremist -attacks'on Western tourists, has
tried and largely failed to get across foe
message that tourists are at greater risk
from foe random violence of Miami.

But travd advisories are issued for good
reason. No government wants to loll
initiative; no parents should lightity dis¬
courage the growing practice of using the
gap year between schod and university to
broaden horizons. American tourists who
steered dear of Europe during the Gulf War
carried risk aversion to absurd lengths. But
guerrilla groups know how to exploit public-
fty and Western outrage. The rathlessnessof

recent attacks on tourists should make those
pfe nning adventures in the world’s outback
take more trouble to Irani something about
foe country before setting off.

From Mr Mohamad Al Fayed

Sir. Woodrow Wyatt seems a jolly old
cove but be would do better to sack to
the demi-monde of horse racing,
which suits him so wefl, rather than
comment upon standards of probity
in public life fNot fit to be British".
November 1) which after all is what
the current controversy is about and
not just a question of personalities.

Amid the shot and shell that has
been exploding lately, 1 have told the
truth arid I am determined to continue
to do so until all the facts are aired
surrounding the politically motivated
derision to investigate my acquisition
of House of Fraser in 1985 and every¬
thing that happened afterwards, par¬
ticularly how a copy of the inspectors’ ’
report got to Lanrho 11 months before
it was published by the Government.

Seekers of the troth are not univer¬
sally popular but then I do not court
the admiration of politicians. I am
genuinely behind the Prime Min¬
ister's drive for open government and
share his commitment to the highest
standards: from the voluminous post¬
bag 1 am receiving and the many tele¬
phone f«ns of encouragement it is
clear that ordinary people do not
readily believe those politicians whose
explanations of their conduct have
been incomplete or inconsistent

Writing in The News of the Worid
Lord Wyatt called for the deportation
of me and my brothers and in your
columns he says we are not fit to be
British because we “aim to destroy Mr
Major and his Government". Leaving
aside the fact that this is utterly untrue
and absurd, can the truth really be so
damaging? I am in no doubt that fresh
ter is beahhy and invigorating for a
nation and before long I trust that my
intervention will be recognised as
having brought only benefits to the
way in which we conduct public life in
this country.

My family name is Fayed and to
suggest otherwise is puerile. I am
proud erf my heritage and applied for
British ritizoiship for the simple
reason that my four youngest children
are British citizens and this is my
second home. As I often have cause to
remember, the ancient Egyptians
were building pyramids and studying
the stars at a time when the ancient
Britans were clothed in furs and
daubing their bodies with blue dye.

Yours faithfully,

M.AL FAYED,

Chairman. Harrods.

87-135 Brampton Road. SWL

Booker dispute

From DrAlastair Niven

Sir, The last time Simon Jenkins vit¬
uperated an the topic of a literary
prize, the proposed UNI fiction award
for women writers fNow a prize of
one’s bwn", July 9), his intervention
led to the loss of the £30.000 sponsor¬
ship promised by the Mitsubishi Pen¬
al Company UK I think he was horri¬
fied at Mitsubishi's behaviour and
later on radio expressed regret for
what he had brought about

Fortunately his comments on this
year's award of the Booker Prize (“An
expletive of a winner, October 15; see
also letters, October 17,20,21) cannot
lead to its withdrawal from James
Kefrnait Hopefully readers will make
up their own minds about How Late It
Was, How Late, and I have no doubt
that some will agree with every
smooth metropolitan word which Mr
Jenkins writes about it

However, as one of the judges im¬
plicated in Mr Reiman’s victory (al¬
though his was not the novel I sought
to win), I must express bewilderment
at Mr Jenkins’s utter misreading of
the book. Perhaps he should have lis¬
tened to the Glasgow “alky" who
pestered him in a railway carriage
years ago. for if he had he might have
responded to the accuracy of Rei¬
man'S lan g ua ge of dispossession.

There are no doubt many thesaur-
jan alternatives to the F word which
appears so frequently in How Late It
Was .... but they are not much used
by the likes of Reiman’S Sammy or
Mr Jenkins’s intruder on the train.

What amazpd me about the novel,
apart from its authentic voice, was its
real sense of poetry in a firmly de¬
prived urban setting, its humour and
its bleak compassion. At the time of
the judging 1 also felt the novel to be
too long, undercharacterised at the
edges, and worryingly hard to read
for those unfamiliar with its accent;
but now tiiat I have read Simon Jenk¬
ins on it I believe more strongly that
we must have made a good choice.

I hope that in their day Ulysses and
Women in Love would have won the
Booker, despite the condemnation
they faced, for similar reasons to Rei¬
man'S, from those with Jenkins' Ear.

Yours faithfully.

ALASTA1R NIVEN.

Eden House, 29 Weathercock Lane,
Woburn Sands, Buckinghamshire.

Motoring speeds

From Mr Alan E. Biyett

Sir. Captain Eric Starling’s letter (Oct¬
ober 26} on the value of expressing
motoring speeds in feet per second ra¬
ther than miles per hour brings to
mind my first lesson when learning to
drive in central London many years
ago. The instructors comment made a
lasting impression: “It’s not miles per
hour but feet per second in the last
fifth of a second which can kflL"

Yours faithfully,

ALAN E. BKYETT,

6 Alpine Close, Bromley, Kent

From Mr Geoffrey H. Lloyd

Sir. Sir Geoffrey Cox (letter. October
29) is concerned about the damage
which is being done to Parliament by
the setting up of the Nolan committee.
I fear he has not grasped the extent of
the growing unease in the nation. The
present areas of interest, together with
others in recent years, are enough
ptima fade evidence that “die Com¬
mons lays itself open to the charge that
those elected to regulate the actions of
the rest of us are not capable of
determining, by themselves, how to
regulate their own actions”.

Even if the transparent hypocrisy of
certain sections of the press is heavily
discounted many people. 1 suspect,
share die feelings of Lord Nolan him¬
self, whom you report (October 29) as
saying that standards in public life
have fallen. Moreover, h is baffling
when, in attempting to arrest the dis¬
ease. the Prime Minister sacks a min¬
ister against whom nothing has been
proved and another keeps his job
when the explanations are far from
convincing.

It has been suggested that Britain*
malaise is not in the same league as
the corruption in Italy or France (Rid¬
dell on Politics, October 21). Why
should we assume that? In local gov¬
ernment the present “homes for votes"
inquiry in Westminster Council is a
separate and worrying issue which
adds to my belief that politicians and
the public alike have been complacent.

Sir Geoffrey is right to alert us to the
implications of an inquiry. However,
whether the inquiry will be more dam¬
aging than the nation's unease being
left to fester remains to be seen; I am in
no doubt that the risk is worth taking
because confidence in Government
needs to be reestablished urgently.

Yours sinceriey,

GEOFFREY H. LLOYD,

Longacre, 73 High Street,

Little Wilbraham. Cambridge.
October 29.

From Mr H. D. Epstein

Sir, To read (report, November 1) of
die unconvincing attempt by the editor
of a once-illustrious newspaper to
justify the uttering by fax to the Ritz
hotel in Paris of a forged document
was of itself an unpleasant experience.
There is however, a more serious, and
broader, issue here.

Those who live by the fax machine
have no wish to die by it. To reinstate
the prima facie veracity of documents

China and Hong Kong

From the Ambassador of the People’s
Republic of China

Sir, Your paper’s article (October 27)
on Hong Kong by William Rees-Mogg
contains gross misjudgments on at
least two vital points.

First, the trouble between Britain
and China over Hong Kong began in
1992 when the new Hong Kong gov¬
ernor unilaterally derided to speed up
the wheel of democracy by devising a
constitutional package for Hong
Kong. It did not begin in 1989 by what
happened in Tiananmen Square, as
alleged by the writer of that article.

For one thing, the Chinese and Brit¬
ish foreign ministers still managed to
reach an agreement early in 1990 on.
among other things, the number of
directly elected seats for Hong Kong’s
legislature for the first three terms
after 1997. For another, the two coun¬
tries agreed on the building of a new
airport in Hong Kong and signed the
memorandum of understanding in
1991. The momentum of cooperation
would have continued had the gov¬
ernor not aborted it with his “reform

Preventing suicide

From Mrs Joan Guenault

Sir. In his article, “How to stop sui-
dde" (Body and Mind, October 25). Dr
Kieran Sweeney portrays poignantly
but very appropriately the emotional
impact that the death of a patient by
suicide may have on a GP.

His observation, with particular ref¬
erence to patients with a history of
psychiatric Alness, that “careful listen¬
ing by GPS" and easy access to other
services in their crisis might just
prevent this tragedy, is one which the
Samaritans would endorse. Indeed we
would extend this view beyond those
with a history of mental Alness to all
who may be considering suicide.

Care for suicidal people must in¬
volve effective partnership of all those
who can offer them support, which
surely must include the whole of our
society. The Samaritans’ view is that

Indonesian rights

From the Reverend P. W. H. Davies

Sir. Further to the letters from Mr
Patrick Nicholls, MP (October 4). and
Mr Jonathan Humphreys (October II)
and to Bernard Levin’s article, “Stop
exercising tyranny" (October 25), I had
the opportunity last month of talking
with Bishop Bdo. leader of the Cath¬
olic Church in East Timor. On asking
him whether reports that the human
rights situation had improved a little
were correct, he replied that some
things were better but others were
worse.

Actual instances of the worst human
rights atrocities, he said, were fewer,
and he firmly ascribed this to the
restraint exercised on Indonesia by the
international attention East Timor has
recently received

received by fax a prosecution is es¬
sential. Nor to do so would set a dan¬
gerous precedent, encouraging others
to try their hand at hard-to-detect
forgery by fax.

Yours sincerely,

H. D. EPSTEIN.

Epstein, Grower and
Michael Freeman (solicitors).

1 Great Cumberland Place. Wl.
November 1.

From Sir Richard Storey,

Chairman of Portsmouth &
Sunderland Newspapers

Sir. Subterfuge by newspapers, like
treason, "doth never prosper” for if it
prosper, none dare call it subterfuge,
as Sir John Harington (1561-1612)
might have written in his Epigrams.

Yours faithfully,

RICHARD STOREY.

Chairman, Portsmouth & Sunderland
Newspapers,

Buckton House, ■

39 Abingdon Road, W8.

October 31.

From MrL U. Borenius

Sir, Mr R. V, Bryan is incorrect in
stating (letter. October 29) that under
the provisions of section 2 of the
Prevention of Corruption Act 1916 a
gift is “deemed prima fade to have
been given and received corruptly"
where h is proved that it has been
received by a person in the employ¬
ment of Her Majesty or a public body.

The prima fade presumption of cor¬
ruption created by section 2 only arises
where a gift is given “by or from a
person or agent of a person holding or
seeking to obtain a contract from Her
Majesty or any Government Depart¬
ment or public body".

Yours faithfully.

LARS ULR1C BORENIUS.

Karelia. Stocksbridge Lane.

Coombe Bissett, Salisbury, Wiltshire.
October 29.

From MrN. T. Farrow

Sir. I am getting rather bored with the
current topic of Tbry sleaze. How
much, for instance, did Robert Max¬
well (or tiie companies which he con¬
trolled) contribute in his day to Labour
Party funds? Do Labour MPs not take
private consultancies?

Yours faithfully.

N.T. FARROW,

13 Chapter Street, Westminster, SW1.

package" in violation of the past agree¬
ments.

Second, it is not China, but Britain,
that does not want to have a "through
train". Admittedly, a provisional leg¬
islature is not the best choice. The bat
choice is the "through train" envis¬
aged in the relevant China's National
People's Congress derision but de¬
railed the unilateral action of the
Hong Kong governor.

The only viable option left to China
is the setting up of a provisional leg¬
islature. China has said that this care¬
taker legislature is to be formed by
election, with a short term of office.
And its powers are to be restricted to
areas that have to be dealt with before
the first post-1997 legislative council is
formed. This Is done with a view to en¬
suring a smooth transition for Hong
Kong. Any charge about China in
breach of the 1984 Joint Declaration is
wide of tiie mark.

Yours sincerely,

MAYUZHEN,

Embassy of the People’s Republic
of China,

31 Portland Place. Wl.

October 31.

GPS do indeed play a significant role,
but must not be made to feel they bear
the entire responsibility.

Consequently we have been work¬
ing with Dr Andre Tylee, the Royal
College of Griierai Practitioners’ se¬
nior mental health education fellow, to
produce a training padt for GPs on
suicide awareness, which is to be of¬
fered to all GPS as part of the mental
health education programme.

This package explores both the as¬
pects of the value of good listening and
the partnership of all appropriate
sources of assistance. May it play its
part in reducing the extern to which, in
Dr Sweeney’s words, “the possibility
of having prevented his death lingers”
with any GP.

Yours faithfully.

JOAN GUBNAULT
(Director of Training).

The Samaritans.

10 The Grove, Slough, Berkshire.

However, according to Bishop Bela
the apparent improvement resulting
from the reduction of the uniformed
military presence on the streets dis¬
guises a worsening of conditions.
Many soldiers now wear civilian dress
and join the ranks of the “undercover"
intelligence who observe, monitor and
constantly threaten the local popula¬
tion.

To me. during my visit (October II
to 16), the fear on the streets of Dili was
palpable.

Yours etc
P. W. H. DAVIES
(Assistant General Secretary,
International Affairs),

Catholic Bishops’ Conference of
England and Wales.

Ailing:on House,

136-142 Victoria Street SWL
October 29.

Prime mission of

UN in Bosnia

From Lieutenant General Sir
Michael Rose. Commander.
Bosnia-Herzegovina Command.
Sarajevo

Sir. Your leading article today headed
"UN irresolution” is so seriously
flawed that I feel bound to reply in
order to put the record straight Such
a correction may also cause you to
modify your call for a greater degree
of enforcement to be used in the UN
peacekeeping mission in Bosnia.

Much of your argument revolves
around differences between Naio and
the UN regarding the use of air power
and reveals a total misunderstanding
of the true nature erf tiie debate. The
mandate, and therefore the mission, is
principally one of peacekeeping, not
peace enforcement The primary mis¬
sion of the UN in Bosnia remains that
of assisting UNHCR and other hum¬
anitarian agencies to sustain the lives
of millions of suffering people in the
midst of a war.

it is not within the mandate or cap¬
ability of Unprofor to impose a mil¬
itary solution on tiie country. In¬
judicious use of force would take the
mission across the line which divides
peace from war. This would hazard
the lives of not only those engaged on
the peacekeeping mission, but the
mission as a whole.

if this happened, the enclaves of
eastern Bosnia would fall, Sarajevo
would return to the horrors of the last
two winters and the future of the
Croat Muslim Federation would be
put into doubt

First it was not in February 1994
but in August 1993 that the Secretary
General of Nato first committed his
air forces in support of the peacekeep¬
ing mission in Bosnia to prevent the
strangulation of Sarajevo. At that time
it was decided that air power would
only be called for by Unprofor as a
last resort

This use of force would act mainly
as a deterrent and would follow all the
normal principles for the use of force
in any peacekeeping operation. Force
used was to be limited to that nec¬
essary to achieve a specific aim. Effort
would be made to avoid collateral
damage, and strong warnings would
be given where possible.

These principles continue to pro¬
vide tiie guidance for both air and
ground commanders involved in Bos¬
nia, although there have inevitably
beat some subsequent adjustments to
the original coordinating arrange¬
ments that were established at that
time.

Since August 1993. the support
given by Nato to the UN mission in
Bosnia has been indispensable to the
success of the peacekeeping mission
as the presence of air power has
ensured that UN Security Council
resolutions and other agreements are
backed by credible force.

To dismiss the destruction of an
MIS tank destroyer and T55 tank by
airpower as a pinprick or signifying
apparent paralysis is to confuse
peacekeeping with warfighting. It is
interesting to note that if no wanting
had been given in the latter air strike,
a number of children who were play¬
ing around char tank would have been
killed. This would not have been in the
interests of Nato or the people of this
country.

Meanwhile, it is not the case that
Sarajevo is without utilities. G3S.
electricity and water are currently
running at an all-time high. Trams
run daily. Nor is it die case that
Bosnian Serb shelling has resumed in
the way implied. Indeed the only
serious case of shelling within the
Sarajevo exclusion zone since the
airport agreement of February 9.
1994, was carried out by government
forces.

Aid continues to reach those in need
and, more importantly, central Bos¬
nia is fast returning to normality, with
the numbers of those dependent on
aid signficantly decreasing.

All this is being done because of the
tireless and often hazardous work of
many thousands of young men and
women who have been voluntarily
contributed by 16 different nations. It
is not right that their work should be
undermined by ' ill-informed com¬
ment.

Yours etc,

MICHAEL ROSE.

Commander,

Bosnia-Herzegovina Command,

The Residency.

Sarajevo. Bosnia-Herzegovina.
November 1.

Mysterious ways

From Mr Antony de Fonblanque

Sir, Your brief item (October 28) re¬
cording that the book Crossing the
Threshold of Hope by His Holiness
the Pope lies second in the bestseller
lists to Alan Bennett's Writing Home
appears under the headline “God and
Bennett".

If this is a subtle way of suggesting
that His Holiness collaborated with a
ghost writer (however holy), may I
point out that in his book the Pope is
not speaking ex cathedra, and lays no
claim to infallibility.

Yours faithfulhr,

ANTONY de FONBLANQUE,

Care Priory Farm House,

Clare, Sudbury, Suffolk.

October 27.

Letters to tiie editor that are intended
for publication should cam'a
daytime telephone number, they
maybe sent to a fax number —*
071-7S2 5046.

THE TIMES WEDNESDAY N OVEMBER 21994

COURT CIRCULAR

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
November 1: The Queen held an
Investiture at Budringtiam Palace
this morning.

The Rt Hon John Major MP (Prime
Minister and First Lord of the
Treasury! had an audience of Her
Majesty this evening.

The Duke of Edinburgh. Chair¬
man. Tiger Club Dawn to Dusk
Competition, this morning chaired a
meeting of the Panel of Judges at
Buckingham Palace.

His Royal Highness. Patron, this
evening attended a Reception at the
Royal Thames Yacht Club. Knights-
bridge. London SW1. Major Charles
Richards was in attendance:

By Command of the Queen, the
Lord i of CrudweU (Lord in
Waiting) was present at Heathrow
Airport. London, this morning upon
the Departure of The Duke of Kent
for the United States of America and
bade farewell to His Royal Highness
on behalf of Her Majesty.

The Duke or Edinburgh (Admiral,
the Honourable Company of Master
Mariners) was represented by Cap¬
tain Terence Sandell (Master) at the
Memorial Service for Captain James
Dunkley (formerly Master! which
was held in St Michael's Paternoster
Royal. College Hill. London EC4. this
morning.

The Lady Susan Hussey has sik*
CT-e dwi Mrs Robert de Pass as Lady in
Waiting to The Queen.

November I: The Prime Edward,
Chairman. The Duke of Edinburgh’s
Award Special Projects Group, this
evening attended a Reception and
Dinner at Christ's College.
Cambridge.

November l: The Princess Royal.
President, the Chartered Institute of
Transport this afternoon attended
the Seventy Fifth Anniversary Lun¬
cheon at the New Connaught Rooms.
Great Queen Street London WCZ.

The Countess of Lichfield was in
attendance.

Her Royal Highness. President.
Save the Children Fund, this evening
attended the Seventy'Fifth Private
Appeal Comminee Meeting and

Birthdays today

Lord Ashburton. KG. 66: the Earl of
Ayksfbni 76: Lady (Maurice) Bath-
um. diplomat, 74; Sir David CalcutL
QC. former Master. Magdalene Coll¬
ege, Cambridge. 64; Sir Clifford
Qietwood. former chairman. George
Wimpey. 66: Mr John Fingerhut.
pharmaceutical chemist 84: the Right
Rev P.H.E. Goodrich. Bishop of
Worcester. 65; Dr Ronald Hedley.
former direoor. Natural History
Museum. 66; Mr Paul Johnson,
author. 66; Mr Alan Jones, racing
driver, 48: Dr David Lea. assistant
general secreary. TUC. 57; Dr Jade
Leonard, chairman. British Technol¬
ogy Group. 63; Sir Brace Martin. QC.
former chairman. North Western
Regional Health Authority. 56: Miss
Pauline Nevflle-Jones. diplomat. S5;
Sir Peter Newsam. former chairman.
Commission for Racial Equality. 66:
Professor Sir Ronald Oxburgh. for*
flier President. Queens' College.
Cambridge, 60: Professor Norman
pye, geographer. 81; Mr Ivor Robens-
Jones, sculptor, 81; Mr Ken RosewalL
tennis player. 60; Lord Sains bury of
Preston Candover. KG. 67: Mr Brace
Welch, Shadows’ guitarist 53.

Institution of Civil
Engineers

Dr Edmund Hambly, MA. PhD,
FEng. FiCE, became the 130th
President of the Institution of Civil
Engineers on November 1.1994.

Dinner at Buckingham Palace.
KENSINGTON PALACE
November 1: The Princess of Wales.
Patron. Association for Spinal Injury
Research Rehabilitation and
Reintegration (ASPIRE), this morn¬
ing received representatives from the
charity and major sponsors.
November I; The Princess Margaret
Countess of Snowdon, this evening
attended a Dinner given by His
Excellency The Ambassador of The
Ftench Republic at II Kensington
Palace Gardens. London. W1

The Hon Mrs Whitehead was in
attendance.

November 1; The Duke of Gloucester.
President British Consultants Bu¬
reau. this morning attended the
Annual General Meeting and aft&-
wards presented the British Consul¬
tants of the Year Awards 1994 at the
Churchill Inter-CommemaL 30
Penman Square. London Wl. Major
Nicholas Barite was in attendance.
YORK HOUSE

November I: The Duke or Kent,
Patron, the Hanover Band, this
morning left London Heathrow for
New York, to attend a concert Mr
Nicolas Adamson was in attendance.
The Duchess of Kent this morning
visited the Jersey Milk Marketing
Board. Ftve Oaks. St Saviour. Jersey,
the Channel Islands, and later
opened Mont-4-i’AbbC School Mont-
d-i'Abbe. St Hdier.

Her Royal Highness this afternoon
visited the Occupation and Liberation
Tapestries, the Jersey Museum, the
Weighbridge, St Helier. Fiona. Lady
Astor erf Hewer was in attendance.
THATCHED HOUSE LODGE
November 1: Princess Alexandra.
Vice President, this afternoon pre¬
sented the first Muriel Monkhouse
Award an behalf of the British Red
Gran Society at 9 Grusvenor Cres¬
cent. London W).

Subsequently. Her Royal Highness
and the Hon Sir Angus Ogilvy visited
dvr Park Lane Fair in aid of the Forces
Hdp Society and Lord Roberts
Workshops at the Park Lane Hotel
London W.l. Mrs Peter Afia was in
attendance.

Sir William and
Lady Nield

A service of thanksgiving for the
lives of Sir William Nield. GCMG.
KCB, and Lady Nield will be held
in the Crypt Chapel Si Paul's
Cathedral on Tuesday. November
8.1994. at noon.

Sheila Lochhead

A memorial Celebration for Sheila
Lochhead. n£e MacDonald, will be
held on Thursday, November 10.
at noon, in the Canada Room.
Royal Commonwealth Society, 18
Northumberland Avenue.
London, WC2. Anyone who knew
Sheila and would like to join us in
this celebration of her life is most
cordially invited.

Lecture

British Academy of Forensic
Sciences

The Lord Chief Justice delivered
the Lund lecture to the British
Academy of {forensic Sciences last
night at the Law Society. After¬
wards the Lord Chief Justice joined
Mr Bernard Sims, president, and
members of the executive council
and their guests at a dinner held at
the society.

Falkland
Islanders up
a gum tree
in the wind

By Nick Nuttall
IN PORT STANLEY

A TOUCH of tropica] calm is
being brought to one of
Britain's most remote and
windswept outposts, the Falk¬
land Islands.

Dozens of eucalyptus trees
arrived on die islands yester¬
day after a journey from
their native Australia to the
South Atlantic via the Celyn
Vale Nurseries, of Carrog.
near Corwen. North Wales,
which bred them horn seeds.

The trees are part of plans
by David Tatham, the is¬
lands’ governor, to soften and
beautify the harsh, near-tree¬
less landscape in and around
Government House:

If the plants thrive: the aim
is to use them as windbreaks
around houses against the
fierce South Atlantic gales
and to provide shelter for
lambs. The Falklands have
no native trees.

Today’s royal
engagements

The Duke of Edinburgh will unveil
a monument to General Don Jos£
de San Martin at the north-east
corner of Belgrave Square at 11-50,
and later will attend a reception at
the Argentine Ambassador’s res¬
idence at 49 Belgrave Square.
Prince Edward, as Trustee of The
Duke of Edinburgh's Award. wQl
attend the HUton International
American Express presentation and
dinner at Painters' Hall al 7 JO.

The Princess RoyaL as President of
the Chartered Institute of Trans¬
port, will anend a council meeting
at 80 Portland Place at 9J5; and, as
Colonel-in-Chief of The Royal
Logistic Corps, will attend a dinner
at the Princess Royal Barracks.
Blackdown. at 7JO to mark 200
years of transport support to the
British Army.

Princess Margaret wiD plant the
first British Red Cross rose in
Cadogan Place Gardens at noon:
and. as Patron of the Purine
Research Laboratory. wQl attend a
reception given by the Purine
Metabolic Patients Association at
Phillips Fine An Auctioneers. New
Bond Street, at 7.10.

The Duchess of Gloucester wifi
open the Grama Housing Society's
residential home in' hail elderly
people. Southwell Court. Mel¬
ba urn, Cambridgeshire, at 11.00;
will open the new residential exten¬
sion at the YMCA Gonville Place.
Cambridge, to mark the assori-
atian 5150ib anniversary at 12.05; as
patron, will visit the Papworth
Trust headquarters. Papworth
EveranL al 1.45; and will open Acre
Ward (mental health inpatient unit)
at Hinctaingbrooke Health Care,
NHS Trust, Huntingdon, at 140.
Princess Alexandra, as patron, will
open the new veterinary centre of
the Peoples Dispensary for Sick
Animals at Barker Butts Lane.
Coventry, at 3.45; and. as patron,
will attend the 25th birthday
celebration dinner of the Jacob
Sheep Society at Chatsworth
House. Bakewefl, ai 7.15.

Andrew McConnell of Celyn Vale Nurseries, with a sapling bound for Port Stanley

Autumnal colours
bathe RHS show

By Alan Toogood, horticulture correspondent

AUTUMN is having its final fling
at Westminster, with colourful
pumpkins and squashes and trees
and shrubs in seasonal attire
among the main ingredients of the
Royal Horticultural Society*
flower show, which opened
yesterday.

The pumpkins, gourds and
squashes being shown by Caroline
Boissel of Castle Donington,
Leicestershire, range from the rich
orange pumpkin “Autumn Gold',
through the glaucous pumpkin
“Crown Prince" and bottle gourds,
to the orange, green and cream
“Turk's Turban” gourd.

A conservatory has been created
by Bumcoose Nurseries, of
Redruth. Cornwall, and filled with
tender subjects including oranges
and lemons, and tibouchina with
sumptuous velvety purple flowers,
while “outside" there is a varied
collection of hardy trees and
shrubs for autumn and early
winter colour. Mahonia “Winter
Sun" with big yetkjw cartwheel
flowers. Mahonia japontax whose
evergreen foliage has turned scar¬
let for the winter, and berrying
shrubs such as Callicarpa
bodinierei “Profusion", whose vi¬
olet berries have become really
conspicuous since the leaves were
shed. The exhibit has been
awarded a gold medal.

Among the best trees for autumn
tints are the liquidambars (sweet
gums) with lobed, maple-like
leaves. Starborough Nursery, of
Edenbridge, Kent, is showing the
variation in leaf colour, size and
shape that occurs in Liquidambar
styrudflua when it is grown from
seed. The large-leaved “Moon¬
beam". whose leaves start soft
yellow in spring, is one of several
named cultivars an this stand.

The show is also rich in cacti.

succulents and other tender plants.
Showing large specimen cacti and
succulents are Southfield Nurs¬
eries. of Morton, Lincolnshire,
and Westfield Cacti, of Kennford.
Devon.

Edreveria species and hybrids —
rosette succulents, native mainly to
Mexico — are being shown by
H.R. Jeffs and G. Souihon, of
Nutfield Nurseries. South
Nutfield, Surrey. Good leaf colour
can now be seen in those which
take on red tints in winter. An
unusual specimen is a cristate
form of Echeveria agavoides with
many small, overlapping, scale¬
like leaves. There are some new
agavoides hybrids from California
- “Ebony" and “Maria", which
promise to grow large.

The papery Bower bracts of
bougainvilleas came in many col¬
ours other than the ubiquitous
magenta, as shown by Westdale
Nurseries, of Bradford on Avon,
Wiltshire.

The RHS competition tor
ornamental plants 6 exceptionally
well supported, with Srourton House
Garden, of Warminster. Wiltshire,
scooping the Stephenson Clarke cup
for four trees or shrubs with
autumnal foliage a brilliant flame-
coloured exhibit of Hydrangea
-Rosewame Lace". Herberts "Gold
Ring". Rhododendron lureum and a
liquidambar. The first prize for four
oees or shrubs with autumnal fruits
has been won by Marie-Chrisdne de
Laubarede. of Drayton. Oxfordshire,
who Is showing Cotoneaster “Cor-
nubla" (red berries). Berberis
msonlae (ted). Sarbus ft upehensis
(white) and Crataegus lavaltet
(flame).

In the display of paintings and
photographs by botanical artists, the
following have been awarded a raid
medal- Elisabeth DowJe. of East
Grinstead. Sussex (watercolour
paintings of violas and vtolettas);
theny-Anne Lavnh. of Isleworth.
Middlesex (watercolour and
gouache of awarded orchids); and
Masako Sasaki, of Merton Park,
London {watercolour and pencil
drawings of streptocarpus).,

The show, in the New Horticultural
Hall. GrqraMt street. Westminster, is
open today from I Oam to 5pm.

Memorial

services

Sir Alexander Johnston
A service of thanksgiving for the
life of Sir Alexander Johnston was
yesterday at St Co h i m ba's
Church of Scotland. Pont Street.
The Rev John H. Mclndoe offici¬
ated, assisted by tbe Rev W.
Alexander Cairns. Mr Alexander
Johnston, son. read the lesson and
Sir Anthony BattishDL Chairman
of the Board of Inland Revenue.

read the gospeL The Very Rev Dr J.
FrasCTMcLuskey gav e an a ddress.
A M Mtw tforUO i ■ ontll wm*!

Dinners

Foundation for Science
and Technology

Lord Butterworth. Chairman of the
Council of the {foundation for Sdence
and Technology, presided at a
foundation lecture and dinner dis¬
cussion hdd last night at the RAF
Oub. Piccadilly. Lord Justice Neffl,
Mr Michael Huebner. Mr Ken Olisa
and Professor Richard Sussking also
spoke.

British Academy of FOreusie
Sciences

The Lord Chief Justice delivered die
Lund lecture to members of the
British Academy of Forensic Sciences
and their guests at the Law Society
last night Dr Patrick Lincoln, chair¬
man of the executive council pre¬
sided. Afterwards the Lord Chief
Justice was ouertained at dinner by
Mr B.G. Sims, president of the
academy, and officers and members
of the executive council
Royal Institute of Pubfic Hrakh
and Hygiene

The Ean of Sdbome, President of the
Royal Institute of Public Health and
Hygiene, presided al the annual
Harben dinner bdd last night at 28
Fbrtiand Place. Profes so r Denis
.Pereira Gray. Professor of General
Practice. Exeter University, was the
guest of honour and bad earlier
delivered the 1994 Harberi lecture. Dr
Hastings EA. Carson received an
honorary feflowship of tbe institute.
1912 Ctab

Sir Cranky Onslow. MP. was the
guest of honour at a (tinner of the 1912
Chib held in the,House of Commons
last night by invitation of Mr Roger
Sims. MP. chairman.

Sauted FepysCfab
The Hon John Montagu, President of
the Samuel Pepys Oub. presided ar
the annual dinner held last night al
the Naval and Military Club, Picca¬
dilly. Mr Derek Stephen, chairman,
and tbe Right Rev Michael Mann
also spoke.

Service dinner

RMCAS

The annual dinner of the Royal
Military College Air Squadron was
held last night at KMCS
Shrivenham. Air Vice-Marshal DJ.
Saunders. Air Officer Engineering
and Supply. Strike Command, was
the guest of honour.

ai

Sir Arnold France, Sir WU1W»
Slimming* CadyJWcsuinn
the Kev sir beret Paulson. Sir Den«
Dobson. QC, Dame Mary smJeran.
Laity Flea. Mr and the Hon Mis
Neville Kobtnson.

Mr Clive Gotten I

Board of Inland Revenue}. Mr v.uve
Brooke (general secretory. inland
RevenueStair FederadoryTMT Dawtd
Andeison-Evans and Mr Drummond
Leslie (Committee of vice-
Omncellars and Principals of the
Universities or the united Ki ngdo m).
Mr Kenneth Dlbben {Universities
Authorises Panel). Dr Anne Hogg.
Mrs Christian Handle and Mr Harry
Evans (Cids Public Day school Trust}.
Mr Paul Dbcey (also representing ttuf
Chairman of Lloyd's). Mr Robin
Forrest (Reform dub).

His Honour and , Mia John
Coplesnme-Boughey. Professor E H
Sondheimer. Mrs Go it. Mr Philip
Bassett. Mr Geoffrey Haitog. Colonel
F G Maxwell, professor J A D
Anderson. Mr N J AdirauotLQC. Mr K
Parker. Mr Leonard Brighton. Mr
Donald D Durban, professor Da«d
and Mis Sylvia Raphael. Mr Paul
odeen. Mr John Green. Mr Doric
Taylor Thompson. Mr and Mrs David
Hobson. Mr and Mrs Philip. Brown.
Mr Ian Spence, Mr Alfred Dalton and
Mis John H Mclndoe.

Mr Demis Potter
A celebration of the life of Mr
Dennis Potter was hdd yesterday
at St James's, Piccadilly. The Rev
Donald Reeves officiated. Mr Alan
Rickman read from Dennis Pot¬
ter's Meaner, Miss Cheryl Camp-
bed and Mr Freddie Jones from
Pennies from Heaven, and Mr
Mdvyn Bragg from The Glitter¬
ing Coffin. Mr Michael Grade.
Chief Executive of Channel 4. Mr
Alan Yentob, Controller, BBCL
and Mr Kenith Trodd. Producer.
BBC D rama Group, re-enacted a
scene from Pennies from Heaven.
Mr Peter Jeffrey read from the
works of W illiam HazfitL Miss
Sarah Potter, daughter, and Mr
Nick Ward gave addresses.

Miss Imelda Staunton sang
Haydn Wood’S Roses of Picardy.
with words by Red E. Weaihenty,
and the P&ul Cavariuti Quinta
played music from Dennis Batter's
Pennies from Heaven. The Singing
Detective and Lipstick on Your
Collar. Among others present
were:

Mrs Margaret Potter (mothert. Mr
Robert Potter (son). Min Jane Potter
(daughter). Mr and Mis E Thomas
Ibratner-ln-lEw and sister) and other
members of the family and many
Mends and colleagues.

Photographs, page 5

Anniversaries

BIRTHS: Jean Baptiste Chardin,
painter, Paris, 1699; Danid Boone,
frontiersman. Pennsylvania. 1735;
Marie Antoinette. Queen of
France, Vienna. 1755; Warren
Hardaig, 29th American President
1921-23, Blooming Grove, Ohio.
1865; Victor Trumper. Australian
cricketer. Sydney, 1877.

DEATHS: Richard Hooker,
theologian. Bishopsbourne. Kent
1600; Jenny Lind, soprano, Mal¬
vern. 1887; George Bernard Shaw,

Forthcoming

marriages

Mr J-E- Baker
and Miss H.E. Go ocher
■jhe engagement is announced
between Jonathan, sot of Mr and
Mrs J.W. Baker, of Beddey,
Oxford, and Helen Elizabeth,
daughter of Group Captain and
Mrs D. Goucher. trf Iwerne
Courtney. Dorset
Mr N-H.V. Barney
and Mbs FJS A. KebbeD
The engagement is announced
between Nicholas, scat of Gam-
piander and MrsT.V.G. Binney. of
Rugate, Sussex, and Fiona, youn¬
gest daughter of Mr and Mrs
TJLD. (Charles) Kebbefl. of
Grange Wood, Watford,

Hertfordshire.

Mr A-P. Gregory
bhH Miss LA. Conneff
The engagement is announced
between Adrian, second sot of Mr
and Mrs SJ. Gregory, of
Beneoden. Kent and. Lisa, only
daughter of Sir Michael and Lady
Conne ll. of Brackley.

Northamptonshire.

MrJ.C. Langan
and Miss SJE. Laras
The engagement is announced
between James, son of Mn£
Breedge Langan. of Tottenham.'
London and of the late Mr James
T^ n gan- and Sarah, daughter of
Mr and Mrs Brian Lavers, of
Oernsfoki. West Sussex.

Mr D. Marsden
and Miss GMJL Hay
The engagement is announced
between David, younger son of Mr
and Mis George Marsden, of
Lynnn. Cheshire, and Caroline.
y-mnH daughter of the Reverend
Bruce and Mrs Hay. of
Smafibolin. Kelso.

Captain S.RA. Miles
and Miss G.R. Kcxmedy
The engagement is announced
between Captain Simon Miles.
Grenadier Guards, sen of Mr and
Mrs RJ.T. Miles, of London.
SW11, and Georgia Rachel daugh¬
ter of Mr and Mrs DJ. Kennedy,
of Foubham, Norfolk.

Mr D.C.W. Nash
and Miss Y.S. Page
The engagement is announced
between Demean, only son of Mr
and Mrs William J. Nash, of
Nudey, Sussex, and Yolanda, elder
riftiitghter of Mr Leon Page, of St
Margaret's Bay, Kent, and Mrs
Marhes Page, of Newtown
Linford. Leicestershire.

Mr W.FJ. Rees
and Miss ED. Pawtyn
The engagement is announced
between RuL son of the late Mr
Michael Rees and of Mrs Sarah
Rees, of Hardip, Kent, and Eknma.
daughter of Mr and Mrs Mkhad
Pawlyn. of Wickham. Hampshire.

Mrl.lliahroa
and Miss K_ Hawkins
The engagement is announced
between Ian. only son of Mrs Jfi]
Thubron. of Skhnouttu Deere?'
and the late Mr Peter Thubron, '
and Krir. younger daughter of Mr
and Mrs Ronald Hawkins, of
Fremantle, Western Australia.

dramatist, Ayof St Lawrence,
Hertfordshire, 1950; James Tfanr-
ber. humourist. New York. 1961.

Luncheon

HM Government

Mr Abscaxr Gcxxflad. Minister of
State for Foreign and Common¬
wealth Affairs, was the host at a
luncheon given yesterday fry Her
Majesty's Go v er nm e nt in the Lo¬
carno Roam at the Foreign and
Ownmonw eaMx Office in honour of
Mr AdoHxu Skaedcius. the Lithua¬
nian Prime Minister.

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wmeraten-Emma-Marle. ■
sister lor OEdrlc and
Christopher.

CHAKSAVAT1 - On October
28th at the WdUngSon
Hospital, to Ranvtr and Us*,
a daugh ter. Rantustia
Anthea.

OAUETLEY - On Octaber
28th M The Portland
Hospital, to AnabeBe (nAs
Kenedy) and Angm. a
beautiful daughter. B eatrice
Mary.

HARRIS - On 3601 October, d
Qwot Marys KoomL
tMnn to Donna and Tony,
the wonderful gift of two
d au ghters end a son.
Antocda. Octavt annd Rp perL
Sstos and a brother for
SanraeL HteteoUw and
balf-ststen for Matthew.

HABVEY - On October a«h at

Tbe Portland HostteBd. »
Colleen and PauL a beautiful
daughter. Mary Catherine, a
sister for chrtstuDher and
Andrew.

KBKDERSOH - On Octobtr
26th at the WeRtn«ton
Hosotuu. to Sanide and
Nicholas, a son.

LETHEM - On October 28th.
to Emma (nfe Oroves-Ratnes)
and Mark, a son. Aldan
Julius.

LITTLE - Nigel and Adds
(Gautier) are thrilled to
a n no u nc e the bhih of J aapar ,
George on Oc t ober 300>
1994 el Natkmal Womens 1
Hospital. Auckland. New
zeedsnd Baby wen. wmm

MoCORMACK - On Odobar
39th. to Emma and Peter, a
daughter. Evetyn. a tear to
Amelia.

REED - On October 29th. M
Ntcoia (Me Corrie-HOO and
Charles, a son. David.

RE3JF - On 18Bi October, to
Diane iMe C i osan a ttO and
David, a son. Henry Jamm
Ottwer. a brother to WBBaao.

SUTTfO - On October 20th. to
Sue (Me Ftynn) and EdwsssL

TWISTOM DAVIES - On 31st
October, to Centeae and
Andkar. a son.

WALTERS - On October l«h.
to Rachel (Me Thomas) and
Jon. a sen. Thomas Owtin

Llewellyn.

DEATHS

ADAMS - on October 2am.
ABsa Maty (Mac) Adams,
aged 80. tormeity or Coatts
& Go., tale of Rtrarheed.
Kent, deorty laved wUe of
the tale Nick Adams, mother
to Murray and Judtih and
grannie to soon, mabc
G race and Joy. Remembered
with lew and affection.
Sendee at Charing (KanO
Crematorium on Friday
mwn fl wr am al 2 pm.

BEVMGTON - On 31st
October 1994. paaoritdly at
home on Ms 9 1 st tterhday.
James Geoffrey Bevtngton
TJ3. betovad husband of
Rosemary, taring father of
John. Peter and Joanna and
devoted nm to Judtih.
Richard and Lucy.
Cremation private. Family
flowers only. DonaOons. If
desired, to RJUJ. AD
enquiries so Vlner & Sans
Ltd.. M High Street. Wat
MaBtoa. Kem. <0732
8434B5X A TtianteBtvtoo
and Memorial Service wta be
beM al St Georye *a Church.
Wrotham. Kent, at 12 noon
on W e dnesd ay 9th
November 1994.

BLETCHLV - On October
SlsL John ntoby. tovtng
tnnbasul of me late Pen.
father of Freuds and Arthur.

NKhotae Church. Grate
KbnMe. Bucks., an Monday
November 7th « 2 em.
Flowers to K.Y. Green, teb
<0296) 82041.

BOOM - on October 28th to
the John Itodcnffe HaateaL
Oxford. Dr. wnaam Robed,
ns, FKC aged 85. Bel o v e d
ttemd or Betty, father of
SeOy. Michael and Heather,
brother of Jean, father-to-
taw of Des (deceased). Helen

SROCKUHUR3T - On Slat
October 1994. peacefully to
Ids sleep. Eric Bramunn
F.P.S.. JJ. Beloved husband
of Nettle and ranch loved
Mber. grandfather and
grate-grandfather. Former
Sheriff of KtoBstafHjpan-
Htdl and past President of the
P harmac e u tical Society. He

Disease Society or Bourn Is
Ham B to o fc A Johns. 1
Dynochurch Rond. Hythe.

aaunr - On October 31st
1994. at home after Hnoe
borne with great co urau e.
Meg (Me JactnonX aped 43

tnndfatho- of ctehy.
Robert. Andrew. Jiteen.
Frauds. Anna. Rosalind.
Jenny and Mar. Funeral
Tuesday am Noventoer
I1JO am at Stecontee Regis
Parish Chinch. Stonroath.
Devon. Mbwed by private
cremation for bendy only.
AH friends w elcome at the
church. Donations. if
desired, to (he Exeter and
DbCrtct Kidney Mlab
AssectaUon of the Royal
Devon and Exeter HomBte.
Won f ora c/o Pollmry*s
Funeral Service. Htgh Street.
Stomouth.

BOOTHMAM - On Monday
31et October 1994. at home.
Joan Mary tSUotswoodX
dear wife at the late Edwin
Stevens and at the Mte
Douglas B o atman, devot ed
mother of Richard. Mery and
Anna and loved and taring

DEATHS

QOORICH - Paul Seaton on
October 31st 1994 at home
with us Camay after a long
farms bravely borne.
Funeral 2 pm Friday 4th
November 1994 at St John's
Church. SbBstone. nr.
LfChflehL Staffordshire.
Family Bowers only but
donations If destred to Tbs
Leon Stephen's Trust Fund
c/o fjh. A J. wan Funeral
Director*. 26 Btrti Street.
Ltehfldd. Staffordshire.
WS13 6PW.

GREEMWAY - John Robert
Charter. Architect- med
peacefully at home 26tb
October, beloved husband or
Zen. ranch loved father nd
grandfidher. Funeral at St
Mary's Church. Calerham.
«h November 11 cm.
Flowers/donatlons e/o Coop
Funeral Service. 100
Brighton Road. Purtay. tat:
(081) 6607622.

ttWVES - On October 29th.
to her sleep at Suncoun
Nursing Home. Sherlngham.
Norfolk, where she had the
kindest care. Sheila Audrey
aged B7 years. Beloved wife
of the late Ernest, loved and
taring mother, mothar-m.

DEATHS

UTTLEWOOD - Nance,
widow of Dr. Martin I

LHBewood. Of BMeford. 1
Devon. Peacefully on 29th
October, aged 90.

MASSEY - Alan, suddenly on
October 27th 1994. aged 69.
An Imgltoteh pari of a
taring, caring and happy
family togtehar with Menu.
Sarah and Brian. Funeral
Service at the Qimdi of St
Peter and Si Paid. SMptak*.
near Henley-on-Thames,
Tuesday November 8th at 12
noon. Family flowers only.

DEATHS

ANNOUNCEMENTS I FLAT SHARE

MUaC AL

INSTRUMENTS

ROBERSON - Lewis, on
October 29th. taring

husband of the tats Anne,
very much loved father of
Carol and John and
grandfeOnr or Anne. Kate.
Sophie and Jeremy. Funeral
Sendee at St Sampson Parish
Church IGotanl} on Monday
November 7ib at 11 am.
Family Rowers onty.

Donations If wished to the
RNLL

URSGLL - On 30th OCtobtr at
Gtaucetear Royal H osp it al.
Oarid of HMum-WVe. as a
result of Maries sustained In
a road traffic sedda u . aped
62. Beloved huSbuud. rather,
gr a nd fa ther and brothg. For
hmerte details please contact
Rogar Bevan. Funeral
Director. Old Ctoooes ttr
Road. Rosson-wye.

Herefordshire tefc (0989)
562092.

and Mary, negbaw or
Victoria aM combi of Cas
and Thai. Funeral Sendee at
Wuitiagworth C hur ch, near
Eye. Suffolk. 2 m Saturday
BOi Nove m ber. Flowers to
Moon Brtau. Fracteagtuixn.
(0728) 725448.

DE PBEE - At Beech HOL on
Monday 3lst October 1994.
Enid, betovad wife of the tale
Hugh and mother of Peter
and John. Funeral Service
on Friday 4lh Novarabnr ta
St Main Parish Church.
Had d ington at 2 pm. Family
Dowers only gtaase hut

donations. If deotred. may be
sent to Scooaam Oaten
Scheme. 51 Cute Terrace.

DUNCAN - On October 2«h
1994. after a long amass
bravely borne. Robert Henry
Ctare aged 88. Darting and
taring h ia han i l at r i -an c ea
Monica, wy dsarty loved
lather of Pater, nuncta
(deem EMana and Carotine.
and spedafly adored by hta
right raandUhlkiren to whom
he was devoted. Private

GAMMBI - Ranald Arthur CB.
rmes. f armer Chief vsanor
inland R evenue. died
peacefully ou 3UI October at
Us home m St he*
CornwaO. aged 74 years.
Funeral m Friday 4th
November at S^o pm at Si
rwn Parish Church. Family
□aware only. Donations to'
Faddnmt Disease Society
c/e WJ. winn F uner al
□Irectore. taL- <0730
793029.

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TOE TIMES WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 2-1994

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OBITUARIES

Sir J ohn Po po-Henaessy, cbe.
art historian* director of the

1967-73, and fee British
• - Museum, 1974-76, died In

SIR JOHN POPE-HENNESSY

ANSELL EGERTON

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applied Guile early in his career and
studc,^Kri v ed in large part from
John Pbpe-Hermessy’s air cf appar¬
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matters, of art history. He made
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statements were made from a consid¬
erable height He stood at weU over
six foot and carried much of die
mffitaiy .bearing of the world in

which he grew up: his father became

a major-general and of his two
godparents one was another general
and the other an air marshals The
Pope-Hennessy stare was unwaver¬
ing and immediately deterred any
impertinent quesffion, although- it
gave him, according to one observer,
a slightly “fishy" look. The-least
mifitaiy part of him was his voice,
curiously high-pitched and 'much
imitated by those who reported or
repeated his words. ■.

.John. Wyndham .PoperHejmessy.
exuded authority.He was bom m fo
the governing classes and carried on
their best traditions. His grandfa¬
ther, another John Pope-Hennessy,
was bom mtoapodrGjrifcfMmtybtrf
quickly shook off those begmnmgs.
won a seat in Parliament and ended -
by governing a number of British
Crown Cotomes. indndingtte Baba- -
mas, Barbados, Hong Kong and
Mauritius. His grandson took care
not to visit any of them,.since they
contained little of art&ic interest to
him, and derided to govern museums
instead.

The family badtgrqund. though,
did instfl mJahnJbpe-HemKssy not
just administrative skill but also a
strong sense of pifoZic service. Until

not far from tiie

rarely strayed far from huge institu-'
trass. In London there was Ins
bflfived V&A.wbichhefeItsEd
swiftly downhill after bfis departure.
Then after a brief speti atrihe British
Museum came the Mampo B tan
Museum afArt in New York. AD
provided bases for fee scholar-
curator. Behind efooeddocics eoidd be
heard the som?d of- the Pope-
Hennessy typewriter. T?rom 1936
when he p ubli s h ed his first hook,
study erf theSieoese painter Giovanni
di Paolo, untfl hisdeafelhefe wasa
constant flow of pchfished woxk of.
M^thstine^on,axxadTalxngmsdar
ly on the Italiansdiodls. .

A typewriter was €oe t)f-dte mo6t
treasured possessions'm the POpe-
Hmnessy nursery and a portable
gramophone was another. John Mc¬
Cormack's son was one of-Ms

contemporaries ' at- Downside and
TfepeHennes^y grew up' passionate
about opera, and especially the
singer s ot the‘Golden Age* hearing
cpme a lot of it in limdon and in
-Europe; When, eventually he joined
the bo ard' of ~Oovent Garden his
■ comments ini committee Were fr&-
■ qurntly lacerating: he spoke with his
customary authority not duty on

- visual standards, which he often
found lamentable, but on vocal ones
aswefl.

Before going up to. Ballicd he had
already, .had' an introduction to
Kenneth (later Lord) Clark via a
. friend of his mother's, Logan Pearsall
Smith. In a rare burst of personal
enthusiasm Pope-Hennessy
. described Clark as flic “new meteor
. in the artistic sky" and as “everything
I aspired to be”. Clark was Keeper of
Western Art at die Asfrmolean dur-
.. .ing- his tune at Oxford, and the
friendship was cemented. Tnri«»ri ,
that first monograph on Giovanni di

- Paolo was dedicated to Claric. But the
two men were very different dark
became -a great and successful
populariser of the visual arts on

r television, which was not a medium
: Fope-Henne$sy took to or cared for.

. - • Surprisingly, John Pope-Hennessy
only managed a second at Oxford.
But he received entrees into the right
artistic aides. Apart from fee sup¬
port of Clark he began to review
books for Raymond Mortimer on the
New Statesman. He had an introduc¬
tion to Bernard Berenson (Pearsall
Smith again) ahdspent three years in
Italy thanks to fee sale erf some
coconut- islands off Borneo be-
. queatbed to him by an unde. By his
.early twenties he had derided upon
. his career and \rife one small setback
he followed ft. The setback was at the
National Gallery, which he joined in
)936 and was judged “unsuitable”
No.one was to use such a word
again. In 1938iiewenttotheV&Als
departmentofpamtingancihestayed
in the Cromwell Road far. 35 yearn,

. apart from the war period spent in
.fee Air Ministry.. This period he
discussed little, but he did receive a
. nuBtaiy MBE for. his work in fee
intelligence arm. However, he let slip
in his autobiography. Learning to
Look, fear far the first time in his life
: he met ordinary people, .. people
whose interests did not in some way
conform to my own, T mean, and to
my surprise I found them congenial
and interesting”. -
The first postwar decade saw a
series of his publications on both
painting and sculptore, chiefly but
not exclusively Italian, which by
themselves would have focused atten¬
tion on him as a leading scholar. He
produced . the monographs Paolo
Cfod^.jSff Ql. a&. Ftu Angelico
(1952), a edtalogiM^ -77te Drawings of ■
Domenkhino at Windsor Castle
£94fiMod A Lecture on Nicholas
Hilliard (1949), as well as short
studies of some individual works of
art in fee V&A. He also devoted a
good part of his formidable energies
tp acquiring important wracks of
sculpture for fee mnsenm. Above alL
however,, he was consolidating by
travel, lectures, reviews, articles, and
sloer personality, a very prominent
place an the English and internation¬

al art-historical scene. He meant to
make his mark, and at times seemed
striving rather stridently to do so. On
the retirement of Sir Leigh Ashton in
1955 there was talk of Pope-Hennessy
succeeding to the directorship, but
Trenchard Cox was selected instead.
In 1967 Pope-Hennessy, who had
been appointed CBE in 1959, succeed¬
ed him.

Although some momentary disap¬
pointment in 1955 was probably
inevitable, it is impossible to feel that
delay proved harmful to either Pope-
Hennessy or the museum. His quali¬
ties were fully and admiringly
recognised by the new director, and
atfee same time he was free of heavy
administrative duties. He produced a
group of volumes. Italian Gothic
Sculpture (1955), Italian Renaissance
Sculpture 0958) and Italian High
Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture
(1963), which were much praised. He
served as Slade Professor of Fine Art
at Oxford in 1956-57, and at Cam¬
bridge in 1964-65. He published in
1964 his long-awaited Catalogue of
Italian Sculpture in the Victoria and
Albert Museum, a massive piece of
justly-appreciated scholarship. He
was particularly atiracted by the
American scene (which he had first
known as a boy when his father was
military attache to the British Em¬
bassy in Washington) and was in
considerable demand as teacher and
lecturer. In 1966 he published The
Portrait in the Renaissance, being
the Mellon lectures, given in Wash¬
ington. In 1971 appeared Raphael,
being the Wrightsman lectures, given
in New York. •

In addition to other books and
articles, and while continuing his
work as reviewer, Pope-Hennessy
was increasingly involved in official

cultural activities. His interests were
wide. He read omiuvorously and had
a very deep feeling for music. Opera
and theatre first-nights were assidu¬
ously attended. By 1967 he was the
obvious, deserving successor to Sir
Trenchard Cox at the museum. His
efficiency and rapid grasp of prob¬
lems — combined with serious schol¬
arship and pronounced taste —
resulted in a distinguished tenure.
He was knighted in 1971.

In 1974 he moved to become
director of the British Museum, in
succession to Lord Wolfenden. His
tenure there, only three years, was
unexpectedly short For this there
were probably two major reasons.

The first was the brutal murder of
his younger brother James a few
weeks after he had taken over at fee
BM. James was a successful author
and biographer, but with a taste for
low life as well as for more elevated
circles (he had written the official
biography of Queen Mary). The
contrast between the two men was
enormous: John lived, surrounded by
the works of art he loved, in an
elegant house in Bedford Gardens.
Kensington, just south of the crest of
Netting Hill, while James was to be
found a little further down the hill in
a darkened, rather grimy maisonette
in Ladbroke Grove. There in January
1974 he was savagely beaten to death
by intruders, one"of whom had been
his lover. The loss of James, whom
he rightly described as “a French
romantic washed up in the 20th
century", was considerable to a man
who never contemplated marriage

The other cause was more practi¬
cal. He became disenchanted wife
fee problems of an institution not
primarily concerned wife art Some
of the privacy of the V & A, where he

had been guarded by a dragon-like
secretary, had disappeared and he
made no secret of his distaste for the
actions of his successor. Roy Strong.
He left for the Museum of Modem
Art in New York, becoming eventual¬
ly consultative chairman of the
Department of European Painting.

New York, a city with which he
had long-standing family connec¬
tions, suited him admirably, not least
in the social sense. He had long been
expert in handling the grandes —and
rich — dames of the Manhattan arts
world. They liked him and he at least
pretended to like them. He had a
niche in a great museum, without fee
cares of the responsibility of running
it day in and day out. He had a
professorship at New York Univer¬
sity. which absorbed his still consid¬
erable energies and yet allowed him
to be productive as a scholar. Above
all in New York he had a status
which was probably unattainable in
London, despite all his achievements
in that dty.

No wonder that when he decided to
retire to Florence, the city which he
had first discovered in his early
twenties, he described himself as “an
emigrant American with a British
passport".

As a scholar, he was tenacious
rather than profoundly thoughtful or
originaL In the tradition of Berenson
(wife whom he remained friendly),
his scholarship was founded on
connoisseurship. and he made little
attempt to analyse cultural periods,
examine stylistic labels or concern
himself wife fee nature of art as a
phenomenon.

Italian art and Italy (especially
Florence) were his first and last loves.
His books convey a good deal of the
man: efficient, lurid, but possibly
more sweepingly straightforward
than art ever was or can nowadays be
supposed to be. It seems typical that
he would write of artists “excogitat¬
ing”. rather than creating, their
work: and in his desire for clarity, he
tended to be impatient of highly-
learned. subtle exegesis.

Beneath the chill, often autocratic
manner there was another John
Pope-Hennessy. not often seen. He
was famous for skewering, both
verbally and in print, those whose
standards did not match up to his
own. If Roy Strong received some
poison darts then his successor at fee
V&A, Elizabeth EsteveGolL got fee
full venom-coated spear for her
“policies of brainless vulgarity”. But
within a small rirde of friends the
Pope-Hennessy guffaw, of an almost
music-hall fruitiness, could be heard.
When the guard was dropped he
could indulge in the simplest of
pleasures.

That was not very often. His
autobiography. Learning to Look
(1991), gave very little personal away.
The journalists who travelled fo
Florence to do the ritual pre-publica¬
tion interviews found a rather lonely
man. with the features, now pictured
against a Florentine roofscape, tak¬
ing on a melancholic look. He wrote
in that book: “Works of art have ;
always seemed to me to have a
supernatural power." And on more
than one occasion he confessed feat
he preferred objects to people.

Ansefl Egerton. City
Editor of The 77mes,

196247. died on October

30 aged 69. He was born
on July 24.1925.

AN AUSTRALIAN by birth.
Reginald Ansell Day Egerton
moved with ease through the
British academic. City and
business establishments. Bom
in Melbourne, he was educat¬
ed at Eton and Melbourne
University before going on to
Oriel College, Oxford. In the
early 1950s he went to Queen's
University. Belfast, where he
lectured in economics. Belfast
was also where he met and
began a long-standing friend¬
ship with Philip Larkin, which
was later to flower in the
published correspondence be¬
tween him and his first wife,
Judy, and Larkin.

Both at Oxford and later m
Belfast, under Professor
Charles Carter, his mind
turned to fee conundrum of
risk-taking in business and
how to assess it The result
was an initial article entitled
“Gambler Preference? Or
Safety First?” in the Oxford
Economic Papers, which four
years later blossomed into a
book. Investment Decisions
Under Uncertainty.

But theory was one thing.
Egerton had his eyes on the
real thing and in the mid-
1950s the opportunity cam e:
The Times was expanding its
City staff and he joined fee
paper as an assistant financial
editor in 1956. becoming assis¬
tant City editor in the follow¬
ing year.

For the next decade Egerton
played a major part in the
expansion of City coverage in
The Times, first alongside
William Clarke, the City edi¬
tor. succeeding him in 1962. It
was a period when City news
was moving from simple
stock-market coverage to em¬
brace economic and political
assessments at home and all
the implications of fee newly
formed Common Market
abroad. Soon fee City Office
had financial correspondents
in Paris. Brussels. Frankfort,
Luxembourg and New York
and was coming to terms wife
an embryo market on its
doorstep, the so-called Euro¬
dollar market, which over fee
next four decades was to
embrace every financial
centre.

This was the happiest
period of his business life. He
was working at the heart of a
City of London which was
reviving strongly against all
international odds, and in a
team that was malting its
mark. On his staff at that time
were two young journalists —
Andreas Whittam Smith, later
founder of The Independent.
and Christopher Fildes. the
Spectator columnist.

The next steps were perhaps

inevitable. The real world of
fee City continued to beckon
and. amid the sharp changes
that followed from Lord
Thomson^ takeover of The
Times in 1966 (after which
Egerton was promoted to be¬
come an assistant editor), the
offer of a directorship at one of
fee leading merchant banks,
Schraders, was difficult to
refuse. He joined a young
team, enticed there by Gordon
Richardson, soon to become
Governor of fee Bank of
England, and over fee next six
years, as an executive director,
Egerton was to learn at first
hand as much as most about
export risks.

Within six years of joining
Schraders he was appointed
first managing director of
Standard and Chartered Mer¬
chant Bank, but within little
more than a year he had
resigned. It was an experience
that he coped with calmly and
from which he emerged virtu¬
ally unscathed. Merchant or
investment banking and com¬
mercial banking are uneasy
bedfellows: the former willing
to take derisions quickly and
easily, the latter inevitably
preferring a more corporate,
cons i dered, approach.
Egerton soon found fee gap
too wide to straddle and said
so candidly almost at mice.
They agreed to differ. Other
commercial banks, in malting
similar merchant banking ap¬
pointments. had far more
acrimonious experiences.

The rest of his business life
centred around Rothmans
International, where he acted
as corporate affairs director.
He was also chairman of
Norton Villiers Triumph. In
retirement he lived in Somer¬
set. commuted to Boodle’s for
rounds of bridge and was
chairman of the Conservative
Association of Taunton until
1993. But he remained active
commercially. In 1991 he be¬
came the first chairman of
Taste of the West, an associ¬
ation of quality foods and
dairy producers in the West
Country.

He is survived by his wife
Wendy and by two daughters
from his first marriage.

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HILARY STEVENSON

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1947.

ONE of the most influential figures in
developing fee science of irradiation in
recent decades. Hilary Stevenson played
an important role in devising new
methods for fee detection of irradiated
food, a goal which was sought by many
governments and consumers. Her enthu¬
siasm and commitment were an example
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KING AND QUEEN
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PERFORMANCE

Great crowds thronged Leicester Square
last night when die King and Queen,
accompanied by the Princesses, attended the
first Royal Command film performance at the
Empire Theatre. A few hundred yards from
the theatre cheering crowds closed in round
their cars, and three mounted police, riding
abreast, had to force a way for them.

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struggled to control the crowds and make a
way for the film actors and others going to the
theatre. Several of these guests were unable to
reach the theatre in time for the opening.
Many women fainted and were taken into the
theatre for first aid.

Mr. Michael Powell, joint maker of the Elm
A Matter of life and Death, of which this was
the first showing, was among the late arrivals.
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“and most of that time I was struggling
through the crowd."

Mr. Ante, the Prune Minister, slipped
through the crowd unohserved a tew minutes
before the royal party arrived.

Over 100 first aid cases were treated in the

In fee course of her work she also made
many contributions to scientific literature
and had many invitations to speak on her
subjecL She edited and contributed with a
colleague to a book on Food Irradiation
and the Chemist and at fee time of her
death was working on another book.
Detection of Irradiated Food — Current
Status.

It was for her contribution to fee field of
irradiation detection that she was
appointed OBE in the 1993 Birthday
Honours.

Mary Hill (Hilary) Stevenson was a
native of Coleraine and attended

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King George VJ, Queen Elizabeth and the
two princesses. Elizabeth and Margaret, were
given an enthusiastic reception when they
attended the Royal Command film
performance.

improvised dressing station in the theatre
foyer. Most of them were girls overcome with
hysteria, but three were sent to hospital.

The King told a Sl John Ambulance officer.
“ I thought we might be casualties ourselves
on the way here. Our car was almost on two
wheels instead of four at times.*’

“A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH”

Thr event of the evening was fee production of
the British Ebn A Matter of Life and Death, for
wltich Mr Michael ftwefi anil Mr Emeric
Pressburger are responsible. The film brans
with a tour through die universe, an earnest of
the variety of subjects its authors mean to cover.

Coleraine High School. She graduated
from Queen's University. Belfast wife a
first in both chemistry (1969) and agricul¬
tural chemistry (1970). After graduating
Stevenson joined the Department of
Agriculture for Northern Ireland as a
lecturer at Loughry College of Agriculture
and Food Technology. During her period
at Loughry she was seconded to the
University of Strathclyde where she
obtained an MSc in food science and food
microbiology.

In 1974 she transferred within the
department to take a position in the
Agricultural and Food Chemistry Re¬
search Division at Newforge Lane, where
her interest was in poultry nutrition. In
1974 she joined fee staff of fee Faculty of
Agriculture and Food Science. Queen's
University, Belfast, as a lecturer. At the
time of her death she was Reader in Food
Science at the university.

In addition to her wide-ranging teach¬
ing responsibilities in fee agriculture and
food science courses, Stevenson’s contri¬
bution on many other matters was
appreciated by colleagues and students
alike. She was always a source of wise
counsel. She was a member of the
Institute of Food Science and Technology
and the Nutrition Society and a fellow of
the Royal Society of Chemistry, she had
also served as a member of the Council of
British Poultry Science.

Hilary Stevenson is survived by her
husband Noel whom she married in 1976.

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the violence of war. Peter (Mr. David Niven)
should be dead but is not. and when Conductor

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period, comes to explain dial there is a mistake in
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nor’-nor'-wesT. howver, and. m the solid techni¬
color dimension. Mr. Roger Liuesey appears to
make medical argument exciting. The iraercst be
takes in the case Peter is convinced he is
conducting with other-world authority on his
right to live communicates itself to fee audience.

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impersonal system of authority, but Messrs,
ttowell and Pressburger are not above introduc¬
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times fee genera) argument is lost in a particular
feud between Prosecuting Counsel (Mr.
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century America) and Defending Counsel {Mr.
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With an enviable reputation for quality, style and value for
money, Swatch is one of the most powerful consumer
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million watches have been sold worldwide and the
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Swatch is part of the SMH Group, a SF3bn turnover
company responsible for the manufacture, marketing and
distribution of an impressive collection of watch brands,
including BLancpain. Omega, Rado, Longines, Tissot and
Flik Flak.

SMH now wishes to recruit a General Manager - Sales and
Marketing, reporting on a matrix basis to the Vice-
President, Sales in Switzerland and to the Managing
Director, SMH UK, with hill P&L responsibility for the
distribution, sales and marketing of Swatch in the UK.

Key tasks will indude:

• increasing UK brand awareness and
market snare, whilst also contributing to
global brand strategies;

• maintaining and developing key

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account relationships with principal distribution
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• providing effective and motivational leadership to a
small team covering sales, marketing and stock
management.

The successful candidate will be a dynamic, highly
motivated sales and marketing professional, able to
demonstrate a solid academic background and a successful
track record of marketing branded products through a wide-
ranging distribution network. Empathy with a young,
fashion-oriented product is vital, and should be combined
with some direct sales and account management experience.
The Genera] Manager - Sales and Marketing must be a first
Ha« communicator with excellent leadership skills and
entrepreneurial flair.

The remuneration reflects the importance of this position
and will include a high base salary and a generous incentive
scheme.

Please send a full CV in confidence to
GKRS at the address below, quoting
reference number339J cm both letter
and envelope, and including details of
current remuneration.

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A GKR Group Company

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Managers

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Robert

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EXECUTIVE SEARCH AND SELECTION

Our client, a newly established subsidiary of a successful high
technology group, is set to achieve rapid growth by exploiting a new
and exciting concept in the field of comparative analysis. Based on
conducting polymer sensing technology their products have wide
ranging quality control applications, although initially they are intent
on addressing the food and drink industries.

To spearhead the initiative they wish to recruit a Product Marketing
Manager for each market who can manage the marketing mix. This
will involve establishing the product promotional plan, developing
product requirement specifications and constant liaison with
customers to exploit commercial openings. Contributions to on¬
going product development and new concept implementation will
also be a vital element of the role.

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relevant discipline and possess sound product marketing
experience gained within the food or drink industries. Previous
technical or sales experience within those industries would also be
an advantage. Additionally candidates will need to demonstrate well
developed interpersonal skills and the ability to influence at all levels
and are likely to be highly motivated by the visibility of their
contribution on the growth of the business.

Interested candidates should initially write, enclosing a full CV and
current salary details, to Robert Wilkinson at Robert Wilkinson
Associates. 36-40 Liverpool Road. Luton. Beds. LUl IRS.
Tel: 01582 487687.

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sector. Baxi Heating Ltd is the principal subsidiary of the employee-owned Baxi Partnership, a £77m company
with an enviable reputation for technical excellence, innovation and quality. It is currently embarking on an
ambitious programme of growth involving new products and strategic international alliances. Since the Sales
Director is shortly to retire we need to fmd a high-calibre successor, someone who can implement the sales
strategy and contribute strongly to the general management of the business.

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consumer durables to the builders merchant sector.

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sales representatives. You must be self-motivated and focused and have themanagerial and personal skills necessary
to work successfully in a team culture.

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■ The remuneration]
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attractive part of North West England, is available if required.

■ Please send your CV, quoting current remuneration
and ref: 3789 to Ross Monro, Theaker Monro and
Newman, Regency Court, 62-66 Deansgate, Manchester,
M3 2EN (061 832 0033). AO replies wiU be handled in
strict confidence.

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Networks Plus is an Independent I.T. Consultancy specialising in Networking and Integration. Our dramatic
growth over the past five years to a multi-million pound turnover company, has been on the high calibre arid

skills of staff in addition to our attention to Quality. All of our clients are blue chip organisation- with high
expectations of professionalism and service. We are seeking Sales Professionals to join this forward looking and
successful company. ,

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current remuneration level in strictest confidence to: .

Mrs Liza Viney, Networks Plus Ltd, Etongate, 110 Windsor Road, Slough, Berks SLJ 2JA.
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ca n provider- five,- uncut'
and continuous coverage <rf a
^wanve investigation mtn mr .
nqfflon m high places. This coun-
ny has not had its countexpait.to
tne •-Anny-McCarthy hearings
transfixed America in 1954.
Thai the national network ABC
oeared as daytime schedules'for
nearly two months while witnesses

the staff of the defence team, die ' "media arcus”. It did not demol-
chief defence counsel an ekterty ish Thomas. He got his lifetime

Boston lawyer, wiped his eyes.

■ “God; any forgive you. Senator,"
said Joseph Welch, . or .words to
feat effect “butt I cannot." Nor did
fee. public. .McCarthy h^ri domd-
ished himseH^on camera.

Joseph McCarthy’s < 4 arge that fee
Army had harboured subversives.
On fee thirtieth day of fee hear¬
ings. after McCarthy had black¬
ened the nazifecrfa young xnan on

feat brings fee country . to a
standstill has been part of fee
American political process. I was
in Wood’s Hole on Cape God;

. Massachusetts, three years ago
when fee . 'Senate Judiciary
- CoramiUeewas investigating Qar-
ence Thomas’S .fitness for appoint¬
ment to the Supreme Court. Every

TV set k town — frcan motel to
conference centre to fried-dam
shack — appeared to be toned to
.fee same - room in Washington
.-whom Professor Anita Hill was
charging Thomas wife sexual ha¬
rassment The spectacle was no

. seat on the highest judicial bench.
But it opened a national debate,
winch continues, about the credi¬
bility given to fee female voice.

Britton, too. can come to a halt
while the whole country is glued to
fee screen. But for a World Cup
final, a Moon landing, a royal
; wedding. Not for politics.

The Scott inquiry might have
provided the moment of initiati on
tor this idea whose time came 40
years ago. But Scott barred tele¬
vision. Instead, for the drama of
fee present and farmer Prime
Minister being questioned about
whar they knew about arms sales
to Iraq, we had to make do with
Victonaii-style artists' impres¬
sions. And tor the forthcoming ex¬
amination of fee extent to which
MPs are for sale, we shall appar¬
ently have nothing.livelier than

BRENDA MADDOX

Tony Bean's notes to help us to
imagine fee scene.

Now the Tory arguments for
keeping the cameras out of fee
Privileges Committee’s hearings
on cash for questions come fast
and smooth. As well they might
The same arguments were mus¬
tered successfully for 25 years to
prevent the televising of Parlia¬
ment itself: dignity would suffer,
members would play to the gal¬

lery. the public would not under¬
stand the proceedings, and inno¬
cent people might be hit by mud
that would stick.

Even the last of these is hollow.
The Privileges Committee, and the
forthcoming Nolan committee on
ethical standards in public life,
will undoubtedly take evidence
from all named parties. And
because they are not courts of law.
anyone who wishes to say more in
his or her defence has recourse to
fee same medium from which the
scandals started in the first place:
fee press.

The Privileges Committee fails
to recognise the truth which in
J989 finally got fee cameras into
Parliament Ibis is (according to
a House of Commons fact sheet)
"the House did not have the right
to deny access to its proceedings to
fee millions of people unable to
attend fee public gallery” and

"that a large proportion of the
general public relied exclusively
on television for information about
politics”.

Instead of citing precedent, the
committee should listen to the
clamour for a change in political
culture. The public may have put
up wife secrecy in government for
centuries. Now it wants to see how
Parliament regulates itself. The
absurdity is that all fee legal,
financial and technical barriers to
televising select committees disap¬
peared when the cameras were
allowed into Parliament There
even exists, cm cable, a Parliamen¬
tary Channel, offering gavel-to-
gavef coverage of both Houses.

So far. few committee moments
have warranted live, extended
broadcasting: among them, the
questioning of the Maxwell broth¬
ers on pensions. Much of the fault
lies within the committee’s struc¬

ture: composed of backbenchers,
ill-supported by research and staff.
The result too often (like Prime
Minister's question time itself),
produces only predictable results.
Most viewers get all they want
and probably more, from edited
snippets in fee main news
bulletins.

What has been missing is a
subject mth the plot and the
characters that would compel the
network controllers of ITV. BBCZ.
Channel 4 and Sky to shout "Clear
the schedules!” That day would
surety come were Mr AI-Fayed to
take the stand.

But that is unlikely. A "senior
source" close to Tony Newton, fee
Leader of fee Commons, says
protectively feat if cameras are
allowed in. "you will get the
equivalent of an O J. Simpson trial
in the Palace of Westminster”.

You would not. What you would
get is a country paying rapt atten¬
tion to serious questions of how it
is governed. It might even ask it¬
self whether it is paying MPs fee
rate for the job it expects of them.

is justified

MPs are baying for fee blood of The Guardian’s editor

— but it is in the public interest for journalists and
newspapers to expose the truth, argues John Diamond

T he honest truth is that Preston originally got his in-
we journalists' some- formation: ne was given it by
times pretend to be: fee hotel’s owner, Mohamed
who we’re not; we , Al-Fayed.
sometimes imply that oar But. a sin gle rum-written
conversation j$ mere -casualsourceisn’t enough* especially
chatter without mentioning for this <axrt of carcc g ^farBateD-
the tape recorder strapped to frig story and especially given

our thigh:'we listen atktyhoies
and peep at windows; we let
slip guessed half^nifes in 4 k

hope of suckering fee contact. trust the word of the talkative

into telling us the fiiH truth. and embittered Mr AHfayed.

All this is sometimes jusfr' Bor the story to work Pres¬
sed: if its a legitimate function ton needed to see the Ml
of joumafism to expose those himseff Mr Al-Eayed wasn’t
who would rather stay atnoc- willing to hand it over person-
posed then subterfuge is occa- ally lest its source one day be
sfona^flttorityaltenjatwete traced (although nobody has

a national press winch . _

reads Hhe Praeda writ-: ~ . • ' —7 "7

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complaining about h
SSt^h&S'; wife steaming open ii
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mission allows for snfchL* -
terihge "m thejtobttc.=• (tf JTUS afiaiT ".. .
interest". And although
defining feat interat is *

notoriously dfficrik ewea fee yet made dear who Mr Al¬
most outraged b ac k b encher Fayed was protecting himself
has not yet had fee neck to from, apart ham the manager

t it is like a husband
complaining about his
ynfc steaming open his
mail to discover details
, ? : ’ offasafiair? ;

suggest .feat d e fesmro m g
whether & minister bad Ins
hotel bffl settled bya mysteri¬
ous Arab feint aTegftfrnate
pursuit of journalism, .... .

That the hotel biEL winch
landed in fee fax tray *rf fie
Guardian editor, ftter Pres¬
ton. was, indeed, a faeshniteof
the real thing, and toatffie
annotation noting feat Said
Mohammed Ayas bad picked
up Jonathan Ankara tab was
anything bat accurate, kn’t up
for argument Nor. come to
that is fee method fay winch

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Sir John Harvey-Jones

IN business, people are the most powerful

resource we have,~but stiB fee most under-
exploited. Wfe underesfenate their intefli-

ihe faest out of feem for busaness, So argues
John Harvey-Jones, one of KitainS best-
known and most admired businessmen, in
his hew bock All Together New.

John Harvey-Jones will put forward fee

the UK at fee forefront of world business at tins
TtmcsfDSBons Ibeum. The forum will take ptemw
Jjjgan Hafi. institute .of ; Education. 20 Bedford Way,
London WO bn Wednesday November? at 730pm. John
Harvey-Jones wifi be si gning copies of ms new book alter

Tickets so tins event, priced at £10 (concessions £7.50), are
available by fidfing EtiBons on 071 915 6613 or fay

Preston originally got his in-' Commons is foil of people
formation: ne was given it fry prepared to defend their own
fee hotefc owner, Mobaxned interest against any outside
Al-Fayed. , interest."

But a single rumwritten The third problem is that
source isnt enough, especially the Commons is notoriously
forthis soriofeareerfereaten- paranoid about the way its
mg fiery and especially given writing paper is used. The
that, privately at leasts Preston - House wifi tap its nose and
has made it dear that he was wink indulgently if a member
imw iBmg to accept on blind -or .minister runs a part-time
trust the word of the talkative plumbing and heating busi-
and embittered Mr AFFhyed. ness from bis Westminster

For the story to work Pres- office or if he installs his
ton needed to see the Ml mistress as his secretary, but if
bimseff. Mr'Al-Fayed wasn’t be dares to use his Commons
willing to hand it over person- paper to quote for a new
ally lest its source one day be ' central beating boiler or.
traced (although nobody has worse, far party rather than

■ __ parliamentary business.

T“ " “T ” — then it’s a matter for the

It is like a husband Privileges committee.

and no arguments.

mplaining about his JSSgSiS;

fe steaming open his
ul to discover details

\cr‘ m ■' woric the various sleaze

af his afiEair? . . . . . stories had been kicking

around The Guardian
.- newsdesk for months
let made dear who Mr Al- waiting for bard facts to
&yed „was protecting himself confirm the word of Mr Al¬
lan, apart from the manager "Fayed And certainly Preston
tf fee Kta Hofei in Paris), and needed to be seen to protect his
o Preston, faxed a request for a sources it’s just over ten years
»py of the tefl on House erf since Preston’S Guardian
Ifomnwns beaded paper--he shopped fee wretched Sarah
aretended to be, in other Tisdall for leaking Defence
words, someone who he isn't. Ministry secrets in its direc-
Ifte'dusedfeenatepaperof tion and fee newspaper has
my ote mstitutian there been trying to vnuficate itself
Mohave probably been no ever since,
now. As one Guardian writer In terms of means and ends.
oys:~Ihere are two problems then. Preston had no real
whh uring Caramoins paper, choice, even though he must
ntefirfifathfohdbc 4 yreceiv- have known that when the
ing a reqiKst written cn it story eventoalty ran somebody
would turn down feat request wcadd notice fee fax number
md fee second is that the at the head of fee notepaper

was his own. Preston now says
-. ; r that, on reflection, he should

have used somebody rise's

f/TMQ FORTTM headed paper; Mr Al-I&yed
LiUINa JlUKlJln. has said that he was party to

- the scam winch suggests feat

rwv- Innpe any notepaper would have
* v Vy done fee job. This suggests

feat using Cammcns paper
might not have been neces¬
sary: it doesn’t say anything
about whether it was accept¬
able or not

Certainly fee Tory back-
• benchers, their eyes on their
shrinking majorities and the
next election, affect to think
onward the feat the scam was not only

mfeathebefieves could put unacceptable but that it was
world business at this even more unacceptable than
ram will take {dace in fee - any alleged imp ro p riety an
nation. 20 Bedford Way, Mr Aitkcn’s part, which is
avember 9 at 7 JO pm. Joan . rather like an errant husband

opies of his new book after romplaining about his wife

steaming open his mail to

: £10 (concessions £7.50), are discover details erf his affair,
on 071 915 6613 or fay ■ Within hours of the leak to
n below. The Sunday Times and The

■ _ Sunday Telegraph any num-

cf fee lutz Hotel in Paris), and
so Preston faxed a request for a
copy of the tefl on House erf
Commons beaded paper--he
pretended to be, in other
words, someone who he isnl.
.If bemused fee notepaper of
any other mstitutian there
would have probably been no
row. As one Guardian writer
ssryK^Ibiore are two problems
with using Commons paper.
The first is feat nobody receiv¬
ing a request written (to it
would turn down feat request
and fee second is that the

Peter Preston: the sleaze stories bad been kicking around The Guardian for months

her of feem were willing to
turn arguments abour ministe¬
rial integrity into (Hie about
press ethics. Aian Duncan, fee
member for Rutland and Mel-
tan, called for the Privileges
Committee to investigate Pres¬
ton personally. The Guardian
generally and, just in case any
other sleaze is pending, every
other newspaper too.

Otter MPS called for Pres¬
ton to be brought to the Bar of
the House to apologise to the
Speaker. Peter Thumham. the
member for Bolton North-
East, told me: “It’s complete
nonsense for Preston to claim
that he used the notepaper to
cover his source."

But surely his use of the
paper didn't affect the facts of
the Aitken case. “It doesn’t
matter. It's deception. He
should be brought to the Bar

and made to apologise."

Coincidentally, as two Sun¬
days were receiving the leaked
details of fee Preston fax on
Saturday, 200 members of fee
Guild of Editors were listening
to a panel discussion on news¬
paper ethics at their annual
conference in Cumbria. Rob¬
ert Satehwell, lately an assis¬
tant editor on The News of the
World and now editor of the
Cambridge Evening News.
was on that panel and is less
certain than many of his
colleagues of the propriety of
the tactic “I'd think it's a
rather difficult one to defend
within the [Press Complaints
Commission] code of practice.
When a story has so many
twists and turns as this one
has. h seems a very peculiar
way of going about things."

Satchwell’s is, if not a lone

voice, then a rare one, for
almost every journalist I’ve
spoken to, and regardless of
political stripe, lakes it for
granted that the faked fax is no
more than a sideshow to the
real event On the other hand
Satehwell sums up the real
worries of those journalists
who are concerned about Pres¬
ton’s tactics: “The press is
already under attack fay Par¬
liament and there are still
some there who want to shack¬
le us."

Indeed, the often-promised
White Paper on the press and
privacy has yet to appear and
although there are those who
think it never actually will,
others in Fleet Street are
certain it will pop up when the
Government needs it most,
which, the way things are
going, could be any day now.

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I f more than a quarter of
Britain's children live in
homes that have satellite
or cable television, why do so

few of them count satellite and

cnWe programmes among
their favourites? In
fee children’s 1 x 9
ten coopted by fee
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ence Research

ITV share fee hon¬
ours with five pro- Mti “"

ten. The one satellite pro¬
gramme to make it into this
group is Sky One’s The
Simpsons.

What our four to 15-year-
oids otherwise enjoy is soaps

{Neighbours on BBC1 is top of
both of the charts and East-
Enders, also BBC1. is third);
flesh and blood superheroes
(ITVs Gladiators is number
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focus is narrowed to
the British homes
which have satellite
(2,685,000, accord¬
ing to a survey last
mouth for fee Inde¬
pendent Television
Association) and ca¬
ble (841,000), pro¬
grammes on terres¬
trial channels count
for nine of the top

Pragnim

Data

Tune

Channel Producer

Genre

TVR

AS 4+ 4-15yrs

All Homes

1

2

Netotfeoum

OttKugriors

Thu

Sat

17.37

1H.12

BBC1

nv

Grondy MBanafanM

LWT

Soap

Entertain

176

194

215

169

a

Ewtanders

-Thu

iaai

B6C1

BSC

Soap

264

163

4

SPnbw Chtoran

Mon

2023

BflCI

BBC

Scorn

agp

164

5

YouV® Been Ramod

Sun

20.30

nv

Qranada

Entertain

266

162

6

7

Casualty

Home And Away

S3S

Mon

2a oi
moa

BBC1

nv

B8C

Seven Nawortc Aim

Drama Sartos
Soap

M9

164

17.2

18.7

8

Coronation Streat

Fli

1929 (TV

Qranada Television

Soap

31 J)

152

9

Bond Date

Sat

19.14

nv

LWT

Entennrm

246

133

10

Top Of The Pope

Thu

19J7I

asm

BBC

Music

165

167

fiddle M Cable Hwms

Oundy Intfiriioonal

LWT

t

2

NatoWwura

Gttoenxs

wed

Sa

1736

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BSC1

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19 JO
21-4

272

s&a

3

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Thu

1931

BBC1

BSC

Soap

265

264

4

SPoint4 Chfldron

Mon

2Ql29

BSC1

B8C

BBC *

GArada Television \

SQpum

23 2

208

5

Casualty

Coronation Street

Sat

20.01

BBC1

Drama Series

33.1

164

6

Mon

1929 nv

266

IBS

7

YtiuVa Been Famed

Sun

2030

nv

Qranada .

—‘Entertain

205

17S

8

Bfindpaw

Sat

1914

nv

LWT

Entammnt

21 JO

17S

9

The Sropwina

Sun

1631

SKY1

Grade Rro

Cartoon

164

160

10

Hama And Away

Mon

1603

nv

Seven Network AuetraBa

Soup

13,7

168

(BBCI’s 2Point4 Children);
video nasties (ITVs You've
Been Framed); hospital
nasties (BBCI’s Casualty,f.
modem romance (ITVs Blind
Date) and Thursday night
fever (BBCl’s Top of
the Pops).

But although
soaps appear to be
this market’s fa¬
vourite fodder, there
1 - 4 -i 9 yn is no mention here

of Channel 4’s
2 i| “young person’s

iaa soap". Brookside. or

]f£ erf BBCTs new Aus-

17.2 sie teen buy-in.

Heartbreak High.
13a Nor are any pro

13J grammes on the

274 Cartoon Network,

Children's Channel
or Nickelodeon

18.4 mentioned.

1&6

170 Brigid

112 Cajxaghan

Durex aims
for youth
in MTV deal

Britain’s biggest condom maker

plans to use rock music to sell to

youngsters. Alan Mitchell reports

T he condom; it should
have everything going
for it The twin spurs of
contraception and protection
from Aids, phis fears about fee
long-term health conse¬
quences of the Pill, should be
quite enough to make it a
“must buy" for the sexually
active. Add a huge govern¬
ment marketing subsidy — in
the UK, a £10 million a year
Health Education Authority
(HEA) campaign has “use a
condom" as one its core-mes¬
sages — and condom market¬
ers should be able to sit back
and watch their sales rise with
the tide.

They did in. the late 1980s,
when condom sales increased
fay 25 per cent after the fust
scares about Aids. But now,
according to Mintd. the mar¬
ket researchers, total UK pur¬
chases are rising by less than 3
per cent a year, ffhey should
reach an estimated 163 million
in 1994.) Nick Hodges, the
chief executive of London
International Group (UG), the
world’s biggest condom pro¬
ducer and owner of Durex. the
leading UK brand, says feat
only two out of ten sexually
active young adults consistent¬
ly use condoms. UG is now
staking its future on Durex

and its ability to_

increase the use ’ —T
of condoms. UG
made losses of

£161 million on « /-

sales of £397 mil-
lion in the past I [pMAfll
financial year. I JJJSfj

The company 1 WKa

has decided to jSjjpG

withdraw from J J,

otto businesses Z| lL3±_ V -
such as photo- r
processing. —^-—- z

make a rights is- _

sue, and pursue
adifferent strate- a NOTT

Sf to make - DEAta

Durex a global ; CONDOR

brand to rank Qygt

alongside Coca- s" HCAf

Cola and Sony. ^>=*1 r~

The first step is ' - \

a £1 million-plus h

sponsorship of f

cult satellite tde-
vision pop pro- y*~ | \,

gramme. Dial
MTV. Group
marketing direc-
tor Clive Kitrfie-
ner says that the

sponsorship wifi x _ jr

advertise the
Durex brand
name to 20 m3-
lion European
homes that have viewers aged
16 to 34. A Dial MTV devotee
could see the Durex name
mentioned more than 1.500
times over the coming year, he
calculates. “The build-up of
awareness wifi be incredibly
good, and young people will
start talking about it among
themselves." he says.

Next spring, the name
Durex will be advertised
across Europe on television (it
has not been an UK television
since 1987). By fee end of 1995
packets of other LIG condom
brands, which have different
names, will all cany a Durex
seal of quality — the first step
to making Durex the global
"brand parent".

Yet, with governments and
health professionals around
the world all encouraging
condom use, why should a

A NOTTONfcHX =
; DEAR-MTiJESE _

; c W|r;

=- HEADACHE ;

brand such as Durex need
intensive marketing? Partly
because few mar keters have
such a sensitive sell to make.
Insecure, rebellious 16 to 24-
year-olds. fee core target mar¬
ket, are notoriously difficult
for marketers to reach. And
trying to influence fee conduct
of their sex lives comes dose to
trespassing on the epicentre of
their angst

The question, says Mr
Kitchener, is “how do you
make protection more accept¬
able?". Somehow, his market¬
ing has to overcome consumer
barriers over such intimate
issues as loss of sensitivity,
inte r r u p ti on of fee sex act
smell, and image. “Condom
normalisation", as the HEA
calls it is a real challenge. So
far, five of its sex education
campaigns since 19S6 have
tried to' break down embar¬
rassment associated wife con¬
doms and encourage a positive
and open dimare. But so far
the results are ambiguous.
Two thirds of those asked, said
feat they would definitely use
a condom wife a new partner,
but indications are that only
about half did. a figure feat
has remained unchanged
since the campaigns began.
Why? When new partners

_ are moving to-

1 | |p 8 | wards sex, all fee

cues are
behavioural, not
sBBB verbal, suggests

a==3 iPg an HEA spokes-

■ JjM r££ woman. Nobody

£s |WiL actually talks

about whether
flsEa they are going 10

grMflCZ have sex, let

3j2i2j'r \ alone stopping to

mention con-
; - dams. “We are

- trying to alter the
serial script,” she

N16H% = says- L

kTHESt Furthermore,
195 VWE r according to Mr

At ft Hodges, Durex’s

KHE- ^ research indi-

— -^ cates that in

—^ many countries

government-

v, ■ ^ backed educa-

—x. tion campaigns

/fe fer. \ alienate their tar-

^ audiences.
Ot- They sell fear of

T|> jfe death rather

than fun and en-
W joyment. And

J/ young people “do

aS not like being

conducting

world wick consumer research
to see if it can unlock the keys
to these social scripts. Should
the marketing emphasis be on
protection and safety, on sen¬
suality, or fun and enjoyment?

Technology may be part of
the answer. Early next year
the company introduces a
revolutionary new condom in
the United States. Called
Avanti. it is made out of
polyurethane rather than la¬
tex. which means it is half the
width, twice as strong,
odourless and colourless.

Yet until some genius finds
a way of using mass market¬
ing to influence the intimate
psychology and sociology of
sex, the condom may remain
fnistratingly short of fulfilling
its true potential — just like so
many of fee encounters it is
concerned wife.

I

TIMES MEOW ANOMARKET1NG AWARDS

I

Nestie’S Gold Blend advertising won The Times award for !i
media in the British and European Sales and Marketing !j
awards presented in Birmingham last week. The Mercury !t
One to One campaign won The Times award for marketing. }|

24

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THE TIMES TODAY

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 2199^

NEWS

Bank gives warning of rate rise

■ The Bank of England has signalled that loan rates will have
to rise again if the Government is to hit its inflation target. The
warning was given less than two months after rates were
increased half a percentage point to 5.75.

The warning came despite the fact that the Bank admitted
that inflation is likely to stay as low as 25 per cent until mid-
1996. close to the next election_Pages 1,25 and 27

Hostages in India freed after gunfight

■ Three Britons, held hostage in India by a Kashmiri
separatist group, were rescued after a gunfight in which two
policeman and a kidnapper died. In Cambodia, three Western
hostages captured by the Khmer Rouge, including Mark
Slater, from Corby. Northamptonshire, have been.found
dead...Pages 1.13.19

Inquiry in disarray

The Commons cash-for-quesnons
inquiry was thrown into disarray
as Labour and Conservative MPs
failed to agree on whether it
should sit in public-Page I

Hangman dies

Britain's last surviving hangman.
Syd Demley, has died at the age
of 73. Demiey helped to hang 25
people, including Timothy
Evans_ -Page!

Heseftine rethink

Michael Heseltine was working
orT'a^compromise formula de¬

signed to give the Post Office
greater commercial freedom
while selling off only a minority
stake..—Page 2

Tribunal deal

An award-winning Automobile
Association shop manager, who
was sacked from her job to make
way for a boss's mistress, left an
industrial tribunal with a £10.000
cheque from her former
employers-Page 3

11-plus test resits

More than 18.000 children in
Northern Ireland will have to
resit their Il-plus tests after pupils
at four schools saw the papers
before sitting them__—Page 8

Clinton in demand

President Clinton, his standing
boosted by good news on the for¬
eign and economic fronts, is sud¬
denly in demand among
Democratic candidates in the
mid-term elections-Page 14

Police accused

The Australian roadworker
charged with killing seven back¬
packers has broken his silence
and accused police of trying to
frame him_Page II

Shopping protest

The era of the giant out-of-town
retail centre must end to save
Britain's high street “shopping
heritage" a report from MPs
said.....Page 4

Potter remembered

The memorial service for Dennis
Potter blended the religious and
the secular with an ambiguity
reminiscent of his controversial
television plays.-.Page 5

Rose airstrike letter

A letter from Lietitenant-General
General Sir Michael Rose, ex¬
pressing opposition to Nato
airstrikes against the Bosnian
Serbs, is likely to cause outrage in
Washington.Page 15

Five children killed

A bomb killed five children and
wounded 17 in an Algerian ceme¬
tery as fundamentalist leaders
poured scorn an a promise by
President Zerouai to hold elec¬
tions next year-.Page 13

Russian share shock

Russian “investmmt fund" man¬
ager Sergei Mavrodi, newly elect¬
ed to parliament, told investors in
his company that their shares are
invalid-.—— Page II

Henry Moore fakes flood art market

■ The art market is being flooded with forgeries of sculptures
and drawings by Henry Moore. The Henry Moore Foundation
in Hertfordshire, which looks after the artist’s estate, has files
bulging with as many as 350 different cases of fakes,
representing only “a small proportion" of what is circulating on
the market. Page 9

Four of this year’s Christmas stamps, which went on sale yesterday. They were designed by Yvonne Gilbert of Newcastle upon Tyne

Abbey: Eight directors and senior
managers of the Household Mort¬
gage Corporation are to receive
bemuses of £8 million following the
sale of their company page 25

Television: Nearly three-quarters
of homes will be able to tune in to
Channel 5 television, due to start
before January 1997-Page 25

Markets: The FT-SE 100 index fell
1.1 points to dose at 30963. Ster¬
ling's trade-weighted index fell
from 81.0 to 80.9 after a rise from
$1.6306 to $1.6347 and a fell from
DM2.4576 to DMZ45II„...Page 28

Football: Osvaldo Ardiles made a
dignified and diplomatic exit after
being dismissed as manager of Tot¬
tenham Hotspur at the end of a
difficult 16 months_Page 48

Cricket: England drew the opeiing
first-class match of their tour
against Western Australia in Perth.
Michael Atherton, the captain, was
pleased with his team’s
performance.-Page 43

Termte: Chris Bailey, the former
British No 3. has retired at the age
of 26 because of problems with his
right knee_Page 46

RoRtng Icon: Arnold Wesker, the
Mick Jagger of the cultural world,
talks about playwriting, feme and
his autobiography-Page 16

HSH

Smooth o p eratio n The velvet trou-
sers-smt is the key to making the
new slick and shimmery look weak
in the real world-Page 17

Public Interest? The case of the
newspaper that faked a fax in pur¬
suit of the truth-Page 23

*111

IN THE TIMES

■ MONSTROUS
Geoff Brown on the
ugly face of Kenneth
Branagh's new
Frankenstein (left)

M NEIGHBOURS
Janet Daley applauds
moves-to end the
blight of out-of-town
shopping malls

Hall on Hamlet As Sir Peter Hall
prepares his production of Hamlet
to inaugurate the newly named
Gielgud Theatre in Shaftesbury
Avenue, he recalls the greatest
Hamlets of his lifetime—including
Sir John Gielgud’s_Page 35

Gtorito updated: English National
Bailers new production of Giselle
sds the supernatural story in the
Austria of the 1920s_Page 36

r: At the Wigmore Hall
the young Russian mezzo Olga
Borodina confirmed her outstand¬
ing potential with a highly-charged
Tchaikovsky recital..Page 36

You can only go so- far with the
protective impulse without finally
distorting the presidency itself,
turning it into a kind of hidden-
away institution and making the
White House a kind of fortress

—The Washington Post

The youngest voters vote less often
than their parents. And their tum¬
our is dropping instead of increas¬
ing. Preaching to young voters
won't get them to the polls. But
getting them to register just might.
The perfect place to start is the
classroom — USA Today

Antony Sher, a memorable Rich¬
ard lit on stage, supplies the voice
for a half-hour cartoon version.
Shakespeare — The Animated
TOles (BBC2,730pm) -—Page 47

.»ers:...

..7

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r

I

^1

Just say no

At some point Mr Clarke will have
to pluck up the courage to listen
politely to Mr George’s deflation¬
ary imprecations and then simply
ignore them—-P&ge »

Cardinal virtues

The 30 new appointees represent a
powerful repository of spiritual
strength; at this stage in the papacy
it would be unrealistic to took for
any change in doctrinal balance as
well ---Page 19

Tourist traps

The ruthlessness of recent atta c k s \
on tourists should make those plan¬
ning adventures in the world’s out¬
back. take more trouble to learn
something about the country before
setting off—-;—Page W

PETER RIDDELL

Pier Preston, the editor of The
Guardian, deserves a knighthood
in the next round of honours for
Fleet Street editors (if there is one),
“for services to the Tory Whips’
office"_Page 10

ALAN COREN

“Historic decoration", says Andrew
Sakti of English Heritage, “is no
less important than bricks and
mortar". Tell me. do you catch that
unmistakable whiff of worm which
tells you that a can of them has just
been opened?-i-Page 18

SIMON JENKINS

MPs should worry about the
spreading stain of “virtual justice”.
In the case of arms-for-Iraq, Lord
Justice Scott has turned an admin¬
istrative enquiry into an attenuated
public trial.____Page 18

PAUL JOHNSON

forgery is a serious crime. In 18th-
century Britain it was punished by
death —Page S.

Sir John Pdpc-Hennessy, art his¬
torian; Ansdl Egerton. former City
Editor, of The Times; ffihiy Ste¬
venson. scientist--——Bage.21

*■'<1

' "*l

-**

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Aspects of the inquiry into
"sleaze" -- : -.......— Page 19

THE TIMES CROSSWORD NO 19,689

ACROSS

1 Find one's attention taken by old
saw 16).

4 Brings up delicacies after due
preparation (8).

10 Priest executed prophet, a mon¬
ster (9).

11 Girl forever in a book—let that be
a warning (5).

12 Backer lost money in something
that made a bomb — a touching
line (7).

13 Slip resulting in a slip? (7).

14 Almost nimble with old printing
method (5).

15 Cutting a fringe (S).

18 Circuit building where there are
places for all in tiie gods (8).

20 College head almost finds the
right page (5).

23 It’s drunk quite a lot initially (7).

25 Craving liquor for half a decade
(7).

26 Hang curtain at last to cut
draught (5).

27 Subtle but false, the claims made
by Jonson |9).

28 Covered up? Strip off and admit
passion (8).

29 The emphatic hand of the Rev.
Obadiah Slope? (6).

Solution to Puzzle No 19,688

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DOWN

1 Slight attraction to Beast finally
evident in Beauty (S).

2 Poor chap needs somewhere to
relax with a good book (4-3).

3 Drops we see in spring garden?
(63).

5 Blow me down! (93).

6 Triumphantly carry off academic
position (5).

7 Asian can be brought in by Army
(7).

8 Take apples, say — the poor ones
left (6).

9 Anything broken? Send for the
BUI. I’d say (53,6).

16 Illusion of marks on Mars —
Schiaparelli's first in the trap
I5.4J.

17 For beauty. Greek island over¬
comes resident foreigner (8).

19 Get current set of papers (Ji¬
ll It’s stimulating to face my su¬
perior (7J.

22 Lack of progress with no change
under way (6).

24 Some attack bowling, others block
(5).

This puzzle was solved within 30 minutes
tw 13 of the 21 competitors at the 1994
national final of The Times Knockando
Crossword Championship.

Times Two Crossword, page 48

by region forecast, 24
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KentSurray Sussex..—--7DZ

Dorsal HarteS KJW. 703

Devon & Cornwall..... — 704

WRaGtoucaAMiaSorris-.705

Bcrka.Bucks.OicDn.. 706

Beds 4lQ>ts & Essex. 707

Nurfofc-Sufl ofc.CfflTfos.—.... 708

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24 h ours a day, d ial 0336 401 loflawed by the
appropriate code
London 4 SE traffic, roadwork*

Area Mthtn M25. 731

Essex/Hertsfieds/ajchs/Berks/Osan....732

Kerfl/Surrey/Sussoi/Harts ..... . 734

M25 London Orbital only- 736

National traffic and roadworks

National motorways _ .737

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Wtfes-. .739

Midlands.... . ._ .. . ...740

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dry with dear periods and sunny
intervals, ft wiU be cloudy with patchy
rain in the west

Northern Ireland will have dear
periods, becoming cloudy with patchy
tain later in day.

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periods overnight with frost and
patchy log in places, doud and rain
will spread to southern and western
areas during the day.

□ London, SE England, E AngDa,
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then cloudy with patchy rain. Wind
light southBrty, freshening in after¬
noon. Max 13c (551).

□ E England, NW England, Lake
District, Central N England, NE
Eng told: after patchy tog sunny

S nods devetoping, perhaps hazy
sr. Winds freshening from south.
Max 11C (52F).

□ Channel Isles, SW England, S
Wales, N Wales: doudy in morning
with patchy rain spreading from west
Wmds becoming fresh, southeriy, by
morning. Max ifC (52F).

□ Isle of Man, SW Scotland,
Glasgow, AigyH, NW Scotland, N
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spreading from west ovamtgnt Out¬
breaks of rain during day. Winds
strong, southerly, for a time. Max 10C
f50F).

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Aberdeen, Centra* Highlands, Mo¬
ray Firth: mist and patchy fog
clearing in morning, bright or sunny
periods. Dry. Winds becoming fresh,
southerly. Max IOC (50F).

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sunny periods. Winds becomingfre:

or strong, southeriy. Max 9C

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SPORT 43-48

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25

: THE UK
ABROAD: HOW
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TIMES

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BUSINESS EDITOR Landsav Cook

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 2 1994

-J . 1 “ ..

• •

... ... By Philip Bassett
Ttiun&l tra^j INDiWlHULEOrrOR.

-•1 v '*•'■ THEGovixmnentshould r^ecttax

t r a-- cu» m the run-up to the nett

.. election, the leader of the Qmfedera-

v• tkm of-British Industry said. In
advance of today's monthly meeting
, between Kenneth Clarke, the Chan-

crijor. and foe Bank of England, the
CBI also argues that interest rates
r i. . •-*. should not be raised too quickly, for
fear _c& “pepnanesifly" damaging
Britain’s economic outlook. Cam-
pany di rectors also say tfiere is no
economic evidence to justify a
further rate rise.

In an interview wrfo77ie Times,
Howard Davies, the OBI’S directar-
1 general, urged Mr Clarke not to nm

urges Chancellor to rule out tax cuts

Premature rate rise could cause ‘permanent harm’

4*

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die economic risk of tax <■»«*
Though Mr Davies broadly sup¬
ports the Government's strategy, ms
suggestion is Bkefy to irritate some
on the Conservative right, who
beSeve tax ads are vital to the
Government's re-election chances.

The CBI leader, who also believes
that business will lode 'more
favourably on the Labour Party now
’that it is Ted by Tony Blair, said the
Government's policy mix on the
economy was about right But he
forecast that the nod sr months to a
year would be difficult for die

Government as it came under
pressure to cut taxes.

He said: ‘There is a risk that the
Government will seek to cut tax
ahead of the election." He
! ministers to resist that temp¬
tation. and to maintain the current
relatively tight fiscal stance. Busi¬
ness, he said, did not want any
major switch in policy. But Mr
Davies accepted that that would not
deliver “short-term popularity" for
the Government in electoral terms.

A policy document prepared for
die CBPs annual conference, which

starts in Birmingham at die week¬
end, says, though, that further tax
rises are “out of the question" —
partly for political reasons, but also
because of their likely impact on pay
and competitiveness.

The CBI paper says the Govern¬
ment and the Bank face a dilemma
over interest rates. While business
would not wish to see a repeat of die
late 1980s. when failure to raise
rates served to make the subsequent
recession worse: the paper says
there are dangers in raising rates
too quickly and too high. This would

slow short-term demand and output
growth unnecessarily, and could
“damage foe economic outlook per¬
manently by discouraging business
expenditure on fixed investment
and on training”.

The Institute of Directors also
argues against any rate rise in Its
latest bi-monthly business opinion
survey. This shows that lack of
demand is still a major concern for
company directors, and that confi¬
dence in the economy has fallen
slightly. Forty-three per cent of
directors are more optimistic than

they were when last surveyed, in
August; then. 46 per cent were more
optimistic than at the time of the
previous bi-monthly survey.

Tim MelvQIe-Ross, foe IoD’s di¬
rector-general. said business was
“riding out” September’s rate rise.
But there was no indication of
overheating in the economy, and
therefore no case for any further
rate increase.

He said: “We fully support foe
Chancellor’s determination to con¬
trol inflation and should evidence
emerge that inflationary pressures
were budding up. then interest rates
would have to rise — but that
evidence does not exist at present”

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EIGHT directors and man¬
agers of the Household
, Mortgage Corporation will
^recehvcioinusesof fS-naflian
over foe next three years
after foe £563milfiqn safe of
their company, to Abbey
National.

Abbeyyesterday
as winner in foe battier
HMCVoqe of foe UJCx
centralised mortgage !
with an agreedLatoO M er a fer.
Other bidders are befiered to
have included bn&fing secret- :
ies including foe Hafifax. Bri¬
tannia. Yorkshire and Birm-
inghaxn Mklshires. as weQ as
Afoed Irish Banks.

Three directors —Maxwell
Padre, managing director;
Robert Weir, treasury direc¬
tor; and Brian Whitfield. mar¬
keting director — and five
managers will receive foe
payments under an incentive
scheme set up by foe firm’s
institutional shareholders.

HMC is owned by 13 institu¬
tions, inducting Sun life; 3i,
the venture capital group; and
American Ins u r an ce Group,
which has a 20 per cent state.

They set up foe scheme in
June to encourage the man¬
agement to achieve a success¬
ful sale.

The three directors wEB be,
over three years and foe
: managers over two years..
The payments are subject m
an agreement by them not to
leave and set up si competi¬
tion. or to work for any .
competitor for three and two
years respectively.

HMC. one of Britain's ;big--
centrafised mortgage
s. put itself up for sate m

July, after the abrupt depar¬
ture of: Duncan Young, its
chirf ggc u ti v c. awd app oin ted
Baring Brothers to manage
tiresafc

: Since its formation in 1986,
it has-grown quickly through
acquisition. having boi^ftt the
books of Allied
Qag Manhattan,

■ the Australian
bankrog group—and Boston'
Safe DQiosit&Trust. Its mort¬
gage bodk is worfo£1.6biffion
and has 28B00 customers.'

■ However, while the acquisi-
tfons increased the size of
HMC?s mortgage hook.
werenotmcK^itoadd!'
jcamly to its profitability. Ulffi
many centralised knders,
HMC has suffered heavy pro-

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visions and has struggled to
increase market share as a
result of tire moribund hous¬
ing market In the year to
March 3L it returned to the
black with £700.000 profits,
compared with a £1.9 million
pre-tax loss tire previous year.
In the first four months of tire
current year, it made £4
million.

Peter Birch. Abbeys chief
executive, said there are no
immediate plans to cut
HMCs rates, although they
will be looked at HMCs
standard variable mortgage
rate is 8.15 per cent, compared
with Abbeys 8.09 per cent

It is the second time that
Abbey has bought a cen¬

tralised mortgage lender in
order to help boost its share of
the UK residential mortgage
marker. It acquired the Cana¬
dian Imperial Bank of Com¬
merce’s £900 million book for
an undisclosed amount in
February.

Mr Birch said the main
advantage for Abbey in taking
over HMC would be its ability
to provide cheaper funding to
HMC, at below the London
Inter Bank Offered Rale, mak¬
ing HMCs mortgage rates
more competitive than those of
other centralised lenders.

HMC employs 300. with its
headquarters in High Wyc¬
ombe, Buckinghamshire. Mr
Birch said there will be no job
cuts as a result of the takeover.

An HMC spokesman said
that had the acquisition not
happened, the company had
intended to Boat in about two
years time. The fact that we
now have a large backer
means we do not have to go
through all that, and it gives
us low-cost funding to expand
tire business faster titan we
would have otherwise been
able to.”

Mr Padre said the acquisi¬
tion “wfll enhance our ability
to offer separately branded
products with the support of a
financially and commercially
Strang parent company".

The acquisition is depen¬
dent on the passing of a
special resolution by the
shareholders to waive their
rights to bid for HMC Abbey
said 96 per ceni of the share¬
holders had accepted foe offer
and the others had indicated
they would do so.

Maxwell Padce, HMC’s manat

! director, left, and Peter Birch, chief executive of Abbey National outside

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Retailer repays

French Connection, foe
fashion retailer, is raising £4.5
million in a share placing to
repay loans that Stephen
Marks, its founder and chief
executive, pumped into the
group to rescue it during foe
recession that swept Britain’s
high streets. Page 31

Brussels aid

Bureaucrats in Belgium have
decided that Merseyside, a
once rich and proud region
fattened with foe profits of
North Atlantic trade, is a
pauper and a deserving
recipient of massive amounts
of aid from the European
Community. Page 29

Arab peace dividend for UK

By Cohn Narbrodgh. world trade correspondent

IBEccaaaoucbtgooltflflsre-
d by Arab nations, which has
hampered British trade, with
foe Middle East, was effect¬
ively declared dead fay King
Hassan of Morocco yesterday.

-The king made his remarks
on the. final session ofthe
foree-day economic s u mmit
between Arab stales and Isra¬
el in CasaHahca. They fol¬
lowed a call an Monday from
Warren Christopher, tire US
Secretary eff State for an eaxfy
and complete end to .the Arab
League boycott on trade with

Israel British companies re¬
joiced at the news. Andrew
Stone, joint managing director
of Marks and Spencer, whose
executive director, David Sieff.
attended tire conference in
Casablanca, said “trade
makes peace”.

Cadbury Schweppes, which
suffered from indirect boycott,
saw signs of an end to the ban
as “only for tire good”.

Saudi AraMa and five other
Gulf States decided a month
ago to drop their indirect
boycott of companies dealing

with IsraeL However, they
failpri to lift foe direct ban on
trade with IsraeL
King Hassan said that tire
c on ference in Casablanca, at¬
tended by businessmen and
political leaders from the re¬
gion, marked the effective end
of the boycott.

He added: “Only tire resolu¬
tion of the Arab League coun¬
cil remains. It wfll disappear
(Hie day, but this conference
has made it meaningless."

Pennington, page 27

Two confirm bids
for Navy yards

By Ross Tieman, industrial correspondent

THE Government faces an
uphill battle in its efforts to
achieve a decent price for the
Royal Navy's refit yards, after
oniy two groups would con¬
firm yesterday that they had
made bids for either.

Babcock International,
owner of Babcock Rosyth De¬
fence. revealed it had bid for
foe Rosyth dockyard, on foe
Firth of Forth, which it runs
under contract to foe MoD.

Devorrport Management
Limited (DML). the consor¬
tium that runs the Devonport
facility at Ffymoufo. said it
had made an offer for the
yard. But the General Electric
Company, which is known to
have considered an approach,
declined to indicate whether it
had bid.

The future of the facilities is
intimately interwoven with
the lad battle between GEC
and British Aerospace for
VSEL, the Barrow-in-Furness
warship builder.

VSEL has joined DML's
backers — Brown and Root
BICC and Weir Group — in
their bid to acquire foe
Devonport assets. The suc¬

cessful ladder may therefore
also acquire an interest in foe
yard that has won tire contract
to refit Britain’s Trident
mid ear missile submarines.
The boats were built by VSEL

In the year ended March 31,
DML recorded a profit before
tax of £11.4 million on turn¬
over of £273 million. The yard
employs almost 4,000
workers.

Rosyth achieved a profit of
£11.1 million on sales of £197
million, with 3.650 employees.
Bidders for both yards are
likely to seek contractual gov¬
ernment pledges to provide
billions of pounds of revenue
through long-term refit
contracts.

The MoD refused to say
haw many indicative bids
were tabled by tire Monday
night deadline. Indicative bids
are likely to be followed next
April by formal invitations to
tender. Completion of the
sales has been earmarked for
April 1996.

Vosper Thorny croft, the
Southampton warship build¬
er. said that it had not made
an offer for either yard.

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NEARLY three quarters osfhtHnes will

be able to tune in to the Channel 5
television station, which is due to
begin broadcasts^ no later titan.
January But forge tracts of

southern England will initially be

be required to fit new aerials if they
want to receive the service. .

The Independent Television Com-
mission yesterday invited bids for the
terhyearficoree to run tire channel Up
to 70 per cenLof boaseholdera should
beubte to receive the service in time.

subject to international clearance of
frequencies. Front-runners for the
licence include Channel 5 Broadcast¬
ing, a consortium backed by Pearson,
owner of Thames TV; MAL the media
group run by Lord Hoffidc and Time
Warner- Bids are ate) expected from
Yodcrinre-Tyne Tees, a group led by
NBC of America. Richard Branson's
Virgin Group. White Rose, the consor¬
tium that lost out to Yorkshire TV. in
the ’ last ITV franchise round, and
GasWest Global Commumcalions, a
Canadian broadcaster. Applications
mi ret be submitted by May. The ITC
pot tire Channel 5 licence out to trader

in April 1992, but postponed its plans
when it emerged that the allotted
frequencies would have interfered
with video recorders. Thousands
would have had to have been retuned
at a cost of up to £75 million.

Sir George Russell, the ITC chair
man. saxt “There are more parties
openly expressing interest in bidding
for Channel 5 now than when we first
advertised itjta April 1992. Channel 5 is
an opportunity to deliver new ideas
and new programmes to millions of
UK homes; extending choice.”

The Government reduced the num¬
ber of available frequencies for Chan¬

nel 5 because of its desire to develop
digital television technology. Gary
Tonge. foe ITCs controller of engi¬
neering, said tire estimated percentage
of the UK population who could
receive Channel 5 had been increased
from about 54 to 70 per cent subject to
international approval of frequencies.
About 16 per cent of households would
require a new aerial.

Clare MulhoUand, the ITCs direc¬
tor of programmes, said the applicants
must indude programmes of “high
quality". Beyond that, and an accept¬
able business plan, the licence will be
awarded to foe highest bidder.

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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 2-1994

New chief
named
at the Pm

By Sarah Bagnall

SIR Martin Jacomb. chair¬
man of Postel Investment
Management is to take
over as non-executive
chairman at Prudential
Corporation, the UK’s big¬
gest insurer, at May's
annual meeting when Sir
Brian Corby retires.

Sir Martin. 64. joined
Prudential’s board in
March. He is a director of
the Bank of England, a
post that expires next Feb¬
ruary, and is to retire from
the PosTel board at the
end of the year.

An Oxford graduate, he
was a barrister before
joining Kleinwort Benson
in 1968. In 1985 he became
deputy chairman of
Barclays Bank and then
chairman °f Barclays de
Zoete WeddL its stockbrok¬
ing arm. He stepped down
as deputy chairman of
Barclays Bank and Com¬
mercial Union at the end
of last year.

Sir Brian Corby. 65.
joined Prudential in 1952
and was chief executive
between 1982 and 1990. He
was chairman of the Asso¬
ciation of British Insurers
from 1985 to 1987 and
president of the Confeder¬
ation of British for two
years. Prudential shares
fell 2p to 316p.

Optimism begins to grow in fragile construction industry

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Confidence
built on
steady pace
of recovery

By RossTibman, industrial correspondent

A STEADY recovery in work¬
load and inquiries is building
confidence in Britain's reces¬
sion-battered construction in¬
dustry, according to the latest
state of the trade survey.

Nearly a third of the 200
quantity surveying firms re¬
sponding to a quarterly inqui¬
ry from the Royal Institution
of Chartered Surveyors (Rics)
anticipate an increase in out¬
put over the next three
months. For the coming 12
months, two out of three
predict a rise:

Their improving confidence
is based on a 1.5 percent rise in
workload during the three
months from July to Septem¬
ber. compared with the previ¬
ous three months. During the
same quarter last year, output
fell 5.5 per cent

The recovery of optimism
among quantity surveyors is
confirmed by forecasts of ris¬
ing recruitment One firm in
five plans to recruit staff
during the next three months,
and two in five expect to do so
over the coming year.

According to the institute,
the upturn is based on a
strong recovery in demand for
shops and offices. Inquiries in
the commercial sector rose 8
per cent in the latest quarter,
the survey shows. But activity
in the industrial sector, and
among builders of private
housing, remains fiat

Christopher Vickers, the in¬
stitute's spokesman on con¬
struction. said the industry
"looks set to see a continued
increase in activity over the
next nine months”. But he
cautioned that any severe cuts
in public sector spending un-
re tied by Kenneth Clarke, the
Chancellor, in his Budget this
month could “undermine this

recovery”. Although the over¬
all picture across Britain is
improving, the institute’s sur¬
vey shows strong regional
variations in the construction
industry's outlook. In the
North, tiie Midlands. East
Anglia and the South East the
industry's workload has risen
considerably in recent
months.

The biggest surge was in
East Anglia, where surveyors
recorded a 65 per cent in¬
crease in the workload. Firms
in the North recorded a 5 per
cent rise, while the South East
including London, showed a 4
per cent improvement

Richard Houghton, the in¬
stitute's representative in the
South East said that specula¬
tive developers were returning
to the capital, but said activity
appeared to be driven more by
the availability of money than
by tennant demand.

in Scotland. Wales and the
South West activity has weak¬
ened despite strong rises earli¬
er in the year. In Northern
Ireland, demand is little
changed despite the ceasefire
declared tty paramilitary
groups and apparent progress
towards a period of economic
reconstruction.

Mr Vickers said that despite
the improvement in trading
conditions, profit margins re¬
main very tight and any
attempt to increase profits
could knock the recovery off
course. Evidence of increasing
skill shortages was also
mounting, he said. More than
two thirds of the firms sur¬
veyed said scarcity of skilled
workers was becoming a prob¬
lem in some areas, an increase
of a quarter on the figure
recorded just three months
ago.

Richard Ftaser, right with John Bennett finance director

Westbuiy
profits
up 55%
at halfway

WESTBURY. the house¬
builder. said increases in
house prices would be limited
in the short term because of
potential purchasers’ uncer¬
tainty over interest rales and
employment prospects (Sarah
Bagnall writes).

Geoffrey Maddrefl, the
chairman, said: “This is de¬
spite the fact that the economic
indicators which should influ¬
ence bomebuyere are more far
vourable than at any time in
the recent past”

Yesterday, Westbury, whose
chief executive is Richard Fra¬
ser. announced a 55 per cent
rise in pre-tax profits to E5.8
mlllkin in the six months to Au¬
gust 31 after a £10 million rise
in turnover to £80 million,
buoyed by higher private
house sales of 1J85, up 22 per
cent. The average selling price
of private houses rose 4 per
cent to £63,185, reflecting in¬
creased sales of detached
houses rather than any general
increase in selling prices.

Mr Maddreli said land
prices were still moving ahead
in spite of the lade of house
price inflation. During die six
months, Westbury acquired
1,164 plots at an average cost of
£14,000, maintaining its stock
of plots with planning consent
at about 6,400. equivalent to
about three years supply.

The dividend, to be paid ani
January 5, was lifted from
1.75p to 1.9p a share, paid out
of earnings of Sflp a share, up
from 3.7p last time.

Call to end rate rise speculation

BRITAIN’S top two build¬
ing societies called on the
Government to end specula¬
tion over further interest rate
rises after the Nationwide
announced yesterday that
house prices in the past 12
months had risen by only 0.7
percent

The Halifax house price
index is expected to reveal a
broadly similar picture of
the housing market when it

By Robert Miller

Is published tomorrow. Gary
Marsh, a spokesman for the
Halifax. Britain’s largest
mortgage lender, said: “We
don’t see any need for further
rises in interest rates, and the
continued speculation about
the need for an increase is
damaging the housing
market"

The Nationwide said: “Con¬
fidence in the housing market
is fragile and a period of

stability would be welcome.”
The small mo nthly increase
recorded by the Nationwide
house price index, also 0.7 per
cent follows September's 2.9
per cent fall in bouse prices.

At the start of the year, the
Halifax and the Nationwide
predicted that house prices
would rise by up to 5 per cent
during 1994. Both have since
downgraded their forecasts to
“broadly flat”.

US purchasing index
at seven-year high

US rates woukltove to rise. TteFtede^Ojra Mar¬

ket Committee meets next on Nov ^ bc [i S Jf? a 50 basis "
point rate rise is expected to be sanchwned
The Dow Jones industrial raw ™ dawa32pomtsja
midday and the dollar rose to DM1.49 55 and Y9 6.75 m res¬
ponse to the National Association of Pmcft^mg hfanage-
menft announcement In

cent, the highest since the 6L0 per cent m Decmmerl987^tn
September it was 582. Three components of fte NAPM
sJL, showed manufacturers had to put up wife longer
delivery tunes from suppliers, a shorter supply of raw
rr.nH»rinig and higher prices. The percentage of ferns saying
they were paying more for raw materials rose to 70 per cent
from 67 per cent in September, fee highest since AjxB 1988.

De Beers shares suffer

DE BEERS, the South African mining group feat domi¬
nates tlwworid market fm diamonds, suffered a sharp share

price fell in Johannesburg yesterday as market fears
surfaced about a court case in Columbus. Ohio, where
General Electric, the US conglomerate, is alleged to have
rigged the world market in industrial diamonds in 1991 ami
1992. in league with a De Bears subsidiary. De Beers has
indicated that it sees no serious threat from the trial as it las
long had to cope with allegations of pricefiring. -

Escort production cut

FORD is to halt production of its Escort model at Halewood
on Merseyside for 12 days tins month because output is run¬
ning aH«id of demand. The cutback, which w ill redu ce oat-
pnt tty 9,200 vehicles, comes in spite of appar ently s trong
sales of Ford cars in the United Kingdom during flic
summer. A company spokesman blamed potential over¬
capacity for the decision-Jimniy Airiie. chief Ford negotiator
far the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union
said: “This shows that the recovery is still fragile.”

Attwoods boosts defence

ATTWOODS, fee UK waste management company.has
seized upon a $225 mflixm acquisition of United States Pol¬
lution Control Inc by LakUaw, to bolster its own defence
against a £364 million hostile bid by Browning Ferris
International BFI acquired LakUaw 1 * near-30 per cent stake
in Attwoods at 109p a share. Ken Foreman. Attwoods'S drief
executive, said: “How can you possibly base a meaningful
valuation on a knock-down price obtained by a seller inneed
of ready cash for an acquisition.”

Astra in Merck venture

ASTRA, the research-based Swedish pharmaceutical com 1
party best known for Losec its anli-uker drug, has agreed to '
pay $820 mfllian far a 50 per cent stake of a subsidiary of
Merck, fee leading American pharmaceidical group. The
Merck subsidiary has sold Losec in America tinder licence
since 1982 and Merck's sales of the medication last year
totalled more than $500 millio n

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International Stock Exchange of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland Limited
pursuant to Section 154(l)(a) of the Financial Services Act 1986 {“die FSA"). This notice
should be read in conjunction with the listing particulars dated 1 November 1994 (“the listing
Particulars") which alone contain lull details of The Fleming Natural Resources Investment
Trust pic (“the Company”) and the securities being offered.

Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for the undermentioned Ordinary
Shires and Warrants to be admitted to the Official List. Robert Fleming & Co. Limited is
acting as sponsor to the Offer. It is expected chat admission will become effective and-that
dealings in the Ordinary Shares and the Warrants separately will commence an 1 December
1994.

You should note dut. in respect of the Placing and Offer for Subscription, Robert Fleming is
acting tor the Company and no one else and will not be responsible to anyone other chan the
Company for providing the prorecdons afforded to customers of Robert Fleming or for
providing advice in relation to the Placing and Offer for Subscription.

In applying for the Ordinary Shares with Wurano. you will be treated as applying on the basis
of the Listing Particulars and in particular the Terms and Conditions of Application set out in
that document- These together govern your rights and obligations. If you are in any doubt
about the action you should take, you are advised to consulc an independent financial adviser
authorised under the FSA. Copies of the Listing Particulars have been delivered to the
Registrar of Companies in England and Wales tor registration in accordance with Section 149
of the FSA.

The Ordinary Shares and the Warrants have not been registered under the United States
Securities Aa of 1933 (as amended] and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to
a US person.

Words and expressions defined in the Listing Particulars have the same meaning in this notice.

The Fleming
Natural Resources
Investment Trust plc

(IncarpmutcJ and registered in England and Hales
under the Companies Aa 19S5, No. 2979855)

Placing and Offer for
Subscription of up to
50,000,000 Ordinary Shares of 25p each
with Warrants on a

1 FOR 5 BASIS AT 100P PER SHARE
PAYABLE IN FULL ON APPLICATION

THE COMPANY

The Company is a new investment crust whose objective is to
provide attractive returns from investment in natural resource
companies worldwide.

The Company will invest in a diversified and international portfolio
of shares in companies engaged in the extraction, cultivation and
processing of natural resources. It may invest in the following
industries: oil and gas, coat base and precious metals, diamonds and
ocher precious scones, forest products, agricultural products and other
industrial raw materials. The Company may also invest up to 10 per
cent, of its assets in physical commodities or related instruments.

SHARE CAPITAL

Authorised Issued and m be issued fully paid*

£ Number of shares £, Number of shares

17.500.000 70,000,000 Ordinary Shares of 25p each 12300.000 50.000.000

♦On the basis that the Offer is fiiDy subscribed and ignoring any exercise of subscription
rights under the Warrants

NOTTS ON HOW TO COMPLETE THE APPLICATION FORM

1 Personal details

131 in (in block capitals) die full name and address of (be applicant.

If this application n bong made jo indy with ocher persons, please read Note 3 before completing
Box L

For applications in die name of a company, please give the registered name of tbc company

2 Application

mi in (in figures) the number of Ordinary Shares (with Warrants) for which you wish to
«PPfr-

Yonr application taut be for a minimum of 2.000 Ordinary Shares (with Warrants).
Applications for up to 5.000 Ordinary Shares (with Warrants) most be in multiples of 500
Ordinary Shares (with Wa r r a nts ) and thereafter must be in multiples of 1,000 Or dinar y
Shares (with Wbimu).

Amount payable

HD in (in figures) the amount payable at 100p per Ordinary Share.

This should be for the number of Oidmanr Shares applied for multiplied by I00p.

Cheque or bankers ' draft

Fin a cheque or bankers’ draft foe the exact amount shown in Box 2 to your completed
Application Form. Your cheque or bankers’ draft must be made payable to “Robert
Fleming ft Co. limited a/c Fleming Resources” and crossed **a/c Payee only”.

Your payment must relate solely to dm application. No receipt wiD be issued.

Your cbetpic or bankers’ draft must be down in sterling on an account at a bank branch tn the UK,
the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man and must bear a LHC bank sore cede in the top rrghr-hand
comer If vou do not have a cheque account, you can obtain a cheque from vour building society or
bank branch

An application may be accompanied by a cheque drawn by someone ocher than the applicants), but any
moons returned wiD be sent by cheque crowed “a'c Payee only" m favour of the applicant named in
Beet I.

Applications wtth a value of £10,000 or greater which are to be settled by way of third patty payment,
c-g. bankers' draft, building society cheque or a cheque drawn by someone other than the applicant,
will be subject to the verification of identity requirements which are contained in die Money
Laundering Regulations 1993.

Foe UK applicants, din may involve verification of names and addresses (only) through a reputable
agency. For ootJ-UX applicants, verification of idrnory may be sought from your barken or from
another reputable institution or professional adviser in the applicant s Country of residence.

If satisfactory evidence of identity has not beep obtained within a reasonable time, then the transaction
shall not proceed any further and die application monies (without interest! wil) be returned to tbc bank
account on which the cheque was drawn.

Please ensure that you have sufficient funds in your b a nk account as cheques may be
presented immediately.

3 Joint applicants

You may apply jointly with up to three other persons. Boxes 1 and 4 must be completed
by cue applicant. All other perso n s who wbb to join in the application most co mp le t e and
Bgs Box 3.

Another person may sign on be hail' of any joint applicant if that other person is duly authorised to do
so under a power of anorney The power of attorney lor a copy duly certified by a solicitor] must be
attached for inspcctrori

A company should sign under the hand of a duly authorised official, whose representative opacity
rmia be sated.

Ordinary Share and Warrant certificates, cheques and other cor r espondence wiD be sent to the addrew
in Box I.

4 Signature

The applicant named in Bax 1 must date and sign Bax 4.

The Application Form may be signed by another person on vour behalf if that person is duly
authorised to do so under a power of attomev. The power of jnomcv lor a copy duly certified by a
solicitor) must be attached fur mspecuon.

A company should sign under die hand of a duly authorised official, whose representative capacity
must be Mated.

|B AVAILABILITY OF LISTING PARTICULARS AN!) THE MINI-PROSPECTUS ||

Copies of the Listing Particulars and of the mini-prospectus, including Application Forms, can
be obtained during normal business hours up to and including Wednesday: 23 November 1994
bom the following:

AIM*! IC"A MON I OR.M

The Fleming Natural Resources Investment Trust plc
25 Copthaff Avenue
London EC2R 7DR

Macfarlanes

10 Norwich Snect
London EC4A 1BD

Cazenove & Co.

12 Tokenhouse Yard
London EC2R. 7AN

Barclays Registrars
S Angel Court
Throgmorton Street
London EC2R 7HT

In addition, copies of the Listing Particulars, including Application Forms, can be obtained,
by collection only: until 3 November 1994 bom the Company Announcements Office. The
London Stock Exchange. London Stock Exchange Twer, Capd Court Entrance, off
Bartholomew Lane. London EC2.

Important — Before completing this form, you should read die accompanying notes.

AS applicants most complete Boases 1, 2 and 4.
1 Personal details Please use block capitals.

Mr. Mrs, Miss or Tide

Forename(s) (in foil)

A/C Designation ftf any)

Tele phon e (Daytime)

2 Application

Your application most be for a minimum of 2,000 OnSnuy Shares (with XBhrrems).

• 1/We offer to subscribe for |_| Ordinary Shares (with Warrants) in The Renting

Natural Resources Investment Trust plc ar lOOp per
share subject to die Terms and Conditions of Application set out i n the Listing Partic^,*

• I/We attach a cheque or bankers' draff for die amount payable off

4 j I Pin your cheque or ba n ke r s' draff for die exact amount shown in the bout above made-payable to
“Robert Renting & Co. Li m i te d a/c Reining Resources” and crossed “a/c Psyee only”. *

3 Joint applicants

4 Signature

Date

November 1994

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HI H> \ LIT. !< \ 1 i

ON I OHMS

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a Angri Court. Thrognottoa Street. London EC2 or Robqt Ffanmg ft Co,
in eaA rare » a, be by Dot Utcc than 1050

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2 November 1994 '• : - 1

TOE TIMES WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 21994

BUSINESS NEWS 27

to Britain’s shipyards □ Trade relations thaw in Casablanca

PTjVQ questions-wiTalready
“ concemmo imminrc m

"be con cent
companies,
they can g

“ "in aijcaUj

^vstors. in water
hat dividend rises
'J.numagement to.

Jan Bws tighter-
'f r >Tn+ and miwu

«peci trom an mccnzima t Aivuir

Opening the dividend taps

gpvCtuuient? Hie two are ev-
otealy connected. 'Iheregulator

Sg,,“* « «*y pricemmts

should make mom for the av¬
erage water utility to pay.diw-
oend rises above inflation. If
mmage fte 4 tt, 6 percent
real divided rises widely pre-
tucred m the City, thw have some
explaining'to do if toe public is
not to flank Mr Byatt had the
wool pulled over his eyes.

™en» is to fae ccHhpetitkKi
sniftig the tag ten. Thames has
mane a high opening had. That
does not mean others will he'
terapted into politically eye¬
catching double figure rises.
Thames made dear that it re¬
gards 1994-95 as the end Of the
old regime and riot the start of
the new. It had some catching up .
to do after the 7per.cent rise in its
pradous .year, which . .was
stricken by. write-offs. It is also
. conscious that its share price is
near the bottom of .the
Thames wants to send a signal
that, as a less favoured mferid '
operator, it does not intend to be
at- the bottom of the City's
predicted dividend range under
the new regime. ..

Unless the regulator got it
wildly wrong, there are limited
ways to "beat the system.
Management, can redouble
efforts to cut capital costs. Boards
can run down dividend cover
faster than the regulator as¬
sumed cm* raise new equity to

five years ago. th«r could also
use profit and cash flow from
non-regulated businesses.

For Thames, like many others,
the diversification route looks
denty unconvincing so for. For a
farther two years, it is likely to
remain a dead weight -The
company is working on better
solutions to capital spending
needs. One of hs rivals reckons it
can save so much that it can
forgo permitted real price rises,
which would realty make Mr
Byatt lode silty. But much of the
real impetus to dividends will
come from taking a much more
relaxed view about dividend
cover and borrowing ratios.

This ts not necessarily a blind.
One of the industry's best-kept
secrets is that most private
shareholders take their divi¬
dends in extra shares rather than
cash. .This is saving Thames

about £20 million a year. In
effect, it is regularaty raising new
equity without expecting to need
a rights issue. In this sector at
least, high dividends are not. in
reality, draining so much cash
from companies. If that argu¬
ment applied elsewhere, and
institutions could be persuaded
to take scrip dividends too, the
general soul-searching over divi¬
dends might be defused.

In the water industry, the
dividend. calculus will remain
politically fraught. That perhaps
explains why, after announcing
an 11 per cent rise, Thames finds
that its shares still yield a
prospective 5.9 per cent

Dockyard
double act

□ THE apparent shortage of
fodders for the Devonport and
Rosyth royal dockyards will
come as little surprise to those in
Britain's defence industry.

Thanks to the contraction of
the Royal Navy, and an ad¬
mirable improvement in the
efficiency of these establishments
under their private sector man-

PENNINGTON

agers, either Rosyth or Devon¬
port is entirely capable of servic¬
ing the remaining fleet

During the hard-fought battle
for the contract to service Brit¬
ain’s Trident submarines, patch¬
ing up warships became an
acutely political issue.

Instead of arriving ai the most
cost-effective answer for the tax¬
payer — a gradual transfer of
work to a single yard, and seed-
corn investment to redevelop the
other — the Cabinet ran scared.
Bravely, Malcolm Rifkind, the
Defence Secretary, gave the Tri¬
dent contract to Plymouth then
promised the bulk of the remain¬
ing surface ship refit work to
Rosyth. until 2005.

The result of that sorry com¬
promise is that both Rosyth and

Devonport are struggling to
maintain facilities with high
fixed costs. They continue to shed
employees, while bidding des¬
perately for the tiny fraction of
refits open for competitive
tender. Diversification efforts,
into railway coaches and yachts,
have shown imagination but
limited rewards.

Against such a background,
bidding to buy a refit yard
requires not only an intimate
knowledge of the opportunities
for cost cutting but an acute
reading of the political weather
vane. The incumbent managers
inevitably have an inside track.
Their bids will surprise no one.
But even they have been taken
aback by the apparent ambiva¬
lence of the Defence Ministry to
the rival offers for warship
builder VSEL by British Aero¬
space and GEC.

Britain’s warship construction
industry has been dogged by
overcapacity for too long. Who¬
ever wins the VSEL bid will still
face tough competition to supply
frigates, minehunters and the
like from Vosper Thomycroft at
Southampton.

If rationalisation makes sense

in warship construction, will the
private sector be given a free
hand to remove overcapacity in
the refit yards too?

Narrowing
the gulf

□ CASABLANCA brings to
mind the Bogart movie classic of
wartime intrigue and romance.
But to judge from comments and
commitments from the economic
summit in the Moroccan port
yesterday, the location may in
future be remembered as the
venue of an Arab-Israeli love-in
that caused the barriers against
economic ties with Israel to come
tumbling down.

The conference, which brought
together political and business
leaders from the Arab world and
Israel, ended with a final pledge
to explore ways to overcome
obstacles to trade and invest¬
ment, “including boycotts”. King
Hass an of Morocco declared the
Arab League boycott, in place
since 1951, effectively dead. Now,
it is up to the Arab League
ministerial meeting in March to
bury the matter. That they will

do so is by no means assured.
After US pressure. Saudi Arabia
and the Gulf stales agreed in
September to end their second¬
ary and tertiary sanctions, which
was good news for companies
that wish to trade with Israel and
the Arab world. But the primary
boycott remained, preventing
companies conducting _ trade
across Israeli borders in the
region. But the boycott has been
crumbling for some time. UK
exports to Israel are set to reach
£1.1 billion this year. making it
Britain’s second biggest market
in the Middle East after Saudi
Arabia. lingering tears about
sanctions appear unwarranted.
As Arab nations feel the pinch
from lower oil revenues, Israel's
relative attraction as a trading
partner is in the ascendent

World according
to THARP

□ WE already have RPI. RPK
and RPIY inflation measures.
But in the Bank of England's
latest increasingly comprehen¬
sive Inflation Report it offers us
the new delights of THARP, a
refinement of HARP. HARP
adjusts underlying inflation for
housing costs. THARP goes one
further and adjusts for indirect
taxes too. What next? Perhaps an
inflation index which takes out
... inflation.

out with 11% payout rise

Btr Graham Seargeant
. FINANCIAL EDITOR

THAMES water has ‘Started,
the water, companies’ report-
mg season with an unexpected
II per cent rise in its interim
dividend fcrtheyear to March
3L Sir Robert Clarke, the
chairman, said the dividend
rise should not be seen as an
indication of what would hap¬
pen under foe tighter p ricing
regime set in . July by Iasi
JByatt. the director-general of
water services.

'. He said: "We see tins as the
last year cl the aid regime and
we woe expecting a good
year. £n the next five years; Be
wffl be tougher. We hope to
ccntinra real dhndeqd growth .
brtttfefoectiPapercent real

ALAN WELLER

—The price review, reduced -
Thames's permitted price rises
fix* die fi v e ye a rs storting in
r 1995-96 to 05jer cent above
inflation.

The rise in dividend to &2jv
payable on February 3. was in
Brie with the results of the
group’s core utility business
for flic six months to Septort-
ber '30. Pre-tax profits-a the
utility rose 11 per cent, to 057
million, on turnover up 5 per
cert, to E455 million. The
profit rise was largely due to a
samdstiH in opera tin g costs.

.Rjt foe group as a whole,
pre-tax profits were only E151
million, because a further £7.2
imBfonlossonfoeirternation-'
d water engineering business
dra gg ed non-core activities
into a £5 mfflwn loss/But
group profits were slifl 35 per
cent .ahead of last years,
which suffered ££> rdfllkn of
exceptional costs. Underlying
earring per share rose 11 per
cent to 36.8p.

Mike Hoffman. Thames’s
chief executive, said the pro¬
cess engineering and contract¬
ing business was unlikely to
break even for two years.
Contracts in Turkey, Mexico
and Malaysia have been de¬
layed but it is expected that
they will be signed soon. Sir
Robert said large sums needed
to be spent on-the world's
water systems and only Brit¬
ish and French companies had
tbe eqpertise to compete gkrb-

Mflte Hoffman, left, and Sir Robert Clarice at a new Thames water tower in west London

ally. Thames has appointed
Tony Eddbrd. formerly of
Amec, to run the business.

At home, capital spending
in the utility fell from £182
million to £145 million, owing
to a hill between completion of
the London Ring Main and
thebuSd-up of work on sludge
inaneration plants. Sir Robert
said the ring main, wiuch the
Queen win open next week.

had beat one of the three
leading projects of the time
but, unlike the Channel Tun¬
nel and Sizewell B nuclear
power station, had been fin¬
ished on schedule and to
budget.

The spending hill helped to
cut Thames’s net debt by £34
milli on during the half year, to
£637 million, a third of share¬
holders' funds. Over the next

five years, capital spending is
scheduled to be £1.75 billion,
against £1.9 billion in the first
five years since privatisation.

The group has appointed
two new non-executive direc¬
tors: Roger Carr, the chief
executive of Williams Hold¬
ings, and Tony Hobson, Legal
& General’s finance director.

" Pennington, this page

Allied

Domecq

borrows

more

By Colin Narbrough
WORLD TRADE
CORRESPONDENT

ALLIED Domecq. the
international drinks
group, is to raise its bor¬
rowings substantially to
increase its 73 per cent
stoke in Spain's Domecq
group to nearly 100 per
cent by the year end.

A statement yesterday
said tbe Spanish minor¬
ity shareholders in
Spain-Alecq, which
owns Domecq. bad said
they wanted to exercise
an option, originally
priced at £280.4 million
in sterling terms, to sell
their 27 per cent Alecq
holding to Allied
Domecq.

Currency fluctuations,
since the option price,
which comprises a dollar
dement, was set in
March, meant that a
downward adjustment of
the sterling price will
probably be needed. Al¬
fred Domecq said.

Allied Domecq, form¬
ed when AIlied-Lyons
gained control of Dom¬
ecq for £739 million in
March, said Ramon
Mora-Figueroa and his
family, had dedded to
9eQ their 27 per cert in
Alecq early for personal
reasons. Tbe option
could have run for six
years.

Seoor Mora-Figueroa,
who joined the Allied-
Domecq board in Sep¬
tember. was in London
yestenlay for a board
meeting. He will retain
executive control of
Domecq operations.

An Allied-Domecq
spokesman said tbe pur¬
chase of the remaining
Mora-Figueroa family
would be financed
through borrowings,
which would raise group
gearing on the balance
sheet standing of March
from 70 to 80 per cert.

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PPP. Britain’s second-largest
provider of private medical
health insurance, is to dose its
intermediary arm after little
more than two years in the
business.

The decision was taken after
a wide-ranging review of the
company's business by Peter
Owen. PPPs new chief execu¬
tive, wbo took up his post on
August 1. Previously, he had
been group chief executive of
Aer lingus and operations
director at British Airways,
where he coined the slogan
"Putting people first".

PPP staff were told of the
changes at a meeting on Mon¬
day. Intermediaries had com¬
plained that the health
insurer, which has an estimat¬
ed 28 per cent share of the E2-
bfllion-plus private medical
insurance market, was operat¬
ing a two-tier market, with dif¬
ferent health products being
sold at different prices. They
added that the standard of.
PPPS administration, which

BP defies trend
with 23% advance

By Carl Mortis head

BRITISH Petroleum raised
its third-quarter profits by 23
per cent to £415 million from
£339 million last year in the
face of a weaker oil price and
falling worldwide refining
margins.

David Simon. BP’S chief
executive, attributed foe
strong performance to further
cost reductions, a resurgence
of demand in both oil and
chemical volumes, and lower
debt levels.

He said: “It's our best
quarter since 1991 in the
middle of the Gulf War when
oil prices were $20 per barrel-**

BP said yesterday that re¬
serves in lower-risk areas in
the North Sea and the Gulf of
Mexico would enable it to
produce a million barrels per
day. leaving two-thirds of its
oil production secure to the
end of the century.

The company said that a
reassessment of its portfolio
had shown a less steep drop in
production from Alaska and
the North Sea.

BP’S total debt at foe end of
September was $10.8 billion
with cash from disposals,
including foe recent sale of BP
Nutrition, expected to total
$125 billion.

Mr Simon said that, in
future, cash flow would re¬
ceive much less benefit from
disposals, but the gap would
be made up in cost reductions
and margin improvement

Higher oil and gas produc-

Simon: cost reductions

tion helped BP to achieve
upstream profits of £499 mil¬
lion. similar to a year ago in
spire of a slight fall in the oil
price.

BP is maintaining the third-
quarter dividend at 25p. but
Mr Simon would give no
indication of when a further
increase could be expected.

Strong volumes helped to
boost chemical profits from
£45 million in the second
quarter to £63 million in the
three months to September.

Weak refining margins,
particularly in South-East
Asia, held back refining and
marketing profits, which were
£86 million ahead of foe
second quarter at £219 million,
but below foe comparable
period last year. _

Tempus. page 28

Clydeport
heads for
flotation

ByRossTteman

CLYDEPORT Holdings, a
former trust port acquired by
management and employees
two-and-a-haif years ago for
£26 million, is heading for a
stock market flotation that will
value the business at more
than twice as much.

Up to £25 million is expected
to be raised by a placing of
new and existing shares be¬
fore foe end of foe year. The
sale will raise about £5 million
of new capital, while allowing
employees and a leading ven¬
ture capitalist to recoup part of
their investmenL
John Mather, executive
chairman, said that a stock
marker listing would position
Clydeport to expand by acqui¬
sition if foe port industry
entered a period of consolida¬
tion. as was widely expected.

Clydeport, one of four trust
pons that converted to limited
companies before the last elec¬
tion. owns and operates termi¬
nuses at Glasgow. Greenock.
Hunterston and Ardrossan.
Together, they handle about
4 _S million tonnes of goods a
year, ranging from container¬
ised whisky" exports to coal
imports for power stations.
Last year Clydeport made a
pre-tax profit of £2.45 million.

The broker for the issue will
be Alfred Provincial, while foe
adviser will be Barry
McKellar, of Edinburgh.

City Diary, page 29

had generally been rated
among the best, had deterio¬
rated dramatically.

In a recent survey on service
standards among private
medical insurers by Insurance
Age. foe magazine. PPP came
bottom exit of five, including
Norwich Union, a compara¬
tive newcomer to the market

PPP has been criticised for
reluctance to join foe Insur¬
ance Ombudsman’s scheme.
PPP said, however, that it
belonged to the P1AS scheme
run by the Chartered Institute
of Arbitrators. However, un¬
like the widely recognised
Ombudsman scheme, com¬
plainants need the consent of
the insurer before they can
complain.

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ent divisions and simplifying
our products and prices.
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admission of getting things
wrong in foe past.*

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28 MARKETS / ANALYSIS

THE TIMES WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 21994

STOCKMARKET

PHILIP PANGAtOS

Shares remain nervous
as falls continue in U S

A RELATIVELY upbeat
Quarterly Bulletin from the
Bank of England helped to lift
some of the malaise gripping
shares in London, though
conditions remained nervous
as stocks and bonds in Ameri¬
ca nursed heavy early losses.

The Bank of England said it
has lowered its forecasts on
UK inflation following Sep¬
tember’s h percent increase in
UK base rates. It sees the
underlying inflation in the UK
rising toward 3 per cent in the
first quarter of next year but
easing bade to 2.5 per cent by
early 1996.

This sparked a late futures
rally, which in turn provided
support for the cash market,
though traders remain anx¬
ious ahead of today's monthly
meeting between Eddie
George. Governor of the Bank
of England, and Kenneth
Clarke, Chancellor of the Ex¬
chequer. Dealers, however,
accept that the Bank's latest
inflation forecast should less¬
en the chances of a short-term
base rate rise.

A negative start on Wall
Street, with the Dow Jones
average sharply lower in early
trading, did little to bolster
sentiment in London. The FT-
SE 100 index remained in
negative territory all day. but
managed to eliminate a one¬
time 19J point deficit to end
near its best of the day at
3.096J, down 1.1. Second-
liners fared better, with the
FT-SE 250 up 7.4 at 3.5243.
Volume only reached a lowly
4722 million shares.

The market's recovery was
helped by further sharp gains
by the regional electricity com¬
panies. Electricity shares
again brightened on broker
recommendations and the
prospect of special dividends
if the jointly owned National
Grid is divested through flota¬
tion or sale.

East Midland was among
the brightest performers, add¬
ing 35p to 721p. Eastern. 25*2 p
to 821 Vs p, London. 21p to 746p.
Manwdi. 23p to 830p.
Norweb, 24p to 839p. South
Wales. ISp to 83Sp. Southern.
18p to to 818p and Yorkshire.
24p to 759p.

Among water companies.
Thames Water surprised the
market by reporting a higher-
than-expected II percent inter¬
im dividend increase,
prompting an initial rise to
545p. but the shares came in
for some profit-taking, ending
down ^pat 531%p, in spite of a
353 per cent advance in first
half profits. Among the day’s

Videos shares improved on speculation of Daimler-Benz link

best performing water shares,
Severn Trent added 12p to
585p. Southern. lOp to 61Sp
and Welsh Water gained 29p
to 675p.

Hoare Govett, the stockbro¬
ker. also published research
on the implications for utilities
if there is a change on deferred
taxation proposed by the
Accounting Standards Board
and if the Chancellor removes

lower international call
charges. C&W’s Mercury unit
unveiled hefty cuts on certain
prices from next month, bring¬
ing it into line with BT.

BT firmed 4*2 p to 398*2p as
Hoare Govett made positive
noises, advising dients that
BT was undervalued ahead of
results due next week.

Hoare Govett is understood
to be pushing BICC, up 2p to

Bridport-Gundry. the nets and webbing manufacturer, which
last week reported a jump in full year profits, added 4p to 108p
on news that Mercury Asset Management has acquired a
further275.000 shares, or 27 per cent of the company, bringing
its total shareholding in the group to 121 per cent

capital allowances in this
month's Budget

Elsewhere, Cable and
Wireless retreated 1 lp to 410p,
on volume of 4.81 million
shares.

The market gave a muted
response toa 15 per cent rise in
interim net profits from
C&W’s Hong Kong Tdccom
unit with the higher profits
overshadowed by a slowdown
in Chinese traffic growth and

I Sharo price |

338p, on the bade of an
attractive 7 per cent yield and
15 per cent underperformance
in the past quarter.

There was talk of interest in
Chubb Security, up 7p at
330p. on volume of 710,134
shares, with market whispers
that something may be afoot
while T Cowie also attracted
speculative interest as the
shares firmed bp to 220p.

BP. down 9p to 426p. came

FT all-share
index

(rebased)

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Nov Dec Jan 1 Feb Mar 1 Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct

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1 1

in for profit-taking after re¬
porting a better-than-expected
23 per cent advance in third
quarter replacement cost net
income, driven by cost cuts,
productivity and volume g ains
and good cash generation.
BPS refining margin, how¬
ever. appears to be uncertain,
with downward pressure like¬
ly to continue into the fourth
quarter.

In the defence industry take¬
over battle, British Aerospace
recovered 6p to 452p. while
GEC. which last Friday
launched a £14 a share
counter-bid for VSEL, finned
4p to 281p after posting its
offer document GEC dis¬
closed that it bought a further
113.000 VSEL shares on Mon¬
day, or 029 per cent at £14 a
share, lifting its total stake in
VSEL to 14.99 per cent Most
brokers think that GECs offer
could prove decisive. VSEL
eased 2p to £1338.

Elsewhere in the sector,
Vosper Thornycroft added
18p to 753p, giving a two-day
gain of 34p. while Vickers
firmed 6p to 178p. fuelled by
positive noises from Kernings,
die merchant bank, and spec¬
ulation of a possible link-up
with Daimler-Benz.

Huntingdon International
dived 2lp to 44p after die
company said that it is no
longer in talks over the sale of
its engineering businesses and
warned of significantly lower
full year profits in the current
year and that it will not be
paying a dividend.

□ GILT-EDGED: Gilts raced
higher in late trade as a
generally positive monthly in¬
flation report was released by
the Bank of England. After
drifting bade by up to £*2
during the day on fears that
the report would pave the way
for another UK base rate rise,
gilts shot up when the report
showed little sign of building
price pressures in the
economy.

The December long gilt
future recovered from a low of
£108 8 /32 to end at £101 7 / 32 , up
£*. Among cash stocks, gains
stretched to E* for longer-
dated issues, while index-
linked saw rises of £U.

□ NEW YORK: Wall Street
stocks reacted to the weakness
in bonds and higher than
expected rise in die National
Association of Purchasing
Managers’ October index, in¬
dicating that the Federal Re¬
serve was falling behind in its
fight to contain inflation. By
midday the Dow was down 31
at 3377.

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New York (midday):

Dow Jones_— 387653 (-31-295

SAP Composite-468-60 (-175)

Tokyo:

Nikkei Avenge- 19916.48 (-73-12)

Hong Kong:

Hang Seng-957140 t-7255)

Amsterdam:

EOE Index _41025 1-237]

Sydney:

AO_2Q2&0 (-108)

Frankfurt

DAX-2069.73 H-90)

Singapore:

StnllS_2364.19 (-14-84)

Brussels:

General-closed

Paris:

CAC-40_dosed

Zorich:

SKA Gen-642.90 (+1-30)

London:

FT 30_23600 t+8.1)

FT 100_ 30964 (-1.1) ‘

FT-SE Mid 250 - 35244 (+7.4)

FT-SE Euretrack. 100 - 133143 (-5.91)

FT A All-Share- 153641 WUO)

ft Non Financials-1659.10 l^oai)

FT Gold Mines- 263.1 (-104)

FT FUeO I merest_ 107441-0105

FT Govt sees-9146 (*443

Bargains- 24404

SEAQ Volume- 4724m

U5M (Duasmn)- 15644 (-04F)

USS_14347 (400041)

German Marie_2.451) (-04065)

Exchange index-80.91-0.1)

Bank or England official dose (4pm)

ElECU___14811

fcSDR_14925

RP1-145.0 Sep (24%) Jan 1987=100

APTA Health Wts 6

Adareprmg ISO

Artesian Estates 73

bzw Commodities (100) 87
bzw Commodities wts 43
Calluna 92

CburctUll China (280) 285

Ennemlx{63) 67

Filtronlc Comtek 135
Games workshop (l 15) (23
Group Dv Cap Wts 26

Hambras Sml Aslan 58

Ham bras Smlr AS Wts 27

trtsb Permanent (180) 220
Man EDA F (180) 170

Prolific Inc 486

Servisair (135) 145

Whitchurch 62

Wrexham Water 338

Wrexham Water NV 320

APTA Healthcare n/p (17) *« ...
Bulletsn/p(20) 4 ...

Cattles nip (118) !5 +4

Dragon Oil n/p (trip) l * ...
Matthew Clark n/p (500) 34 -5
Novo n/p (26) *« ...

Sldlawn/p (ISO) 14 -1

Sraurflt (1) n/p (Ir330p) 35 S

Union Square n/p (5) *« ...

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Adam & Harvey.

. 528p(+15p)

. 642p ( + 8p)

Wace „. .

236p (+8p)

British Land.-.

FALLS:

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932p f-17p)

Powerscteen...

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Spaniard in the works

SHAREHOLDERS in Allied Domecq can
take com for t that the envisaged reduction in
the E280.4 million purchase price for the
outstanding 21 per cent stake in Spain Alecq
(the holding company for Pedro Domecq)
involves a currency adjustment, reflecting the
dollar content of the deal, rather than the
discovery of some Hispanic black hole.
Equally, ft would appear that the derision by
Ramon Mora-Figueroa, Domecq’s chief, to
exercise his six-year put option on Allied
within months of the deal being dinched.
relates to his personal financial affairs.

Bearing in mind that the dividend Sow
from Spain Alecq to Carrizuelo. Sefior Mora-
Figueroa’s private company, was always
deductable from the £280.4 million, there was
arguably little incentive, leaving aside tax
considerations, for Senor Mora-Figueroa to

hang on. Allied refuses to be drawn on the
scale of the dollar adjustment, which will be
modest: probably less than £10 million.

Although the speed of consolidation sur¬
prised analysts, they were not displeased and
Allied'S share price edged up 3p to 601p. An¬
alysts at Warburg Securities are predicting
pre-exceptional pre-tax profits of £725 million
(£636 million) for the year to end-Ribruary
which, on earnings per share of 425p. indi¬
cates a p/e ratio of 14.1. In the mevitably dilu-.
five light of Senor Mora-F5gueroa*sunexpeo-
ted “put", the pre-tax prophecy for 1995-96 has
been shaded from £795 million to £775 mil-'
Hon. What is now awaited is the divestment of
Allied's food manufactuing division, where,
break-up value is estimated at some £830
million- The value of the shares will become
clearer then.

Closing Prices Page 30

AFTER yet another set of
sparkling results from BP. it
seems that almost a genera¬
tion hag pasgfri «rinrw the
dark days of losses in 1992.
Today, the company is in a
more expansive mood and is
beginning to talk about in¬
vestment — riiwtplinpri, of
course — but a sefrcfaange
from last year, when the
company’s purse-lipped
message was “cost-cutting”
and not much else.

It can afford to fed confi¬
dent While oil prices and
refining marg ins both fell,
BP raised its profits by more
than 20 per cent in the third
quarter, against the previous
year. The performance
downstream was particular¬
ly impressive; profits from
r efinin g and marketing
bounced back 60 per cent
from die second quarter,
despite a 10 percent slump in

French

Connection

FRENCH Connection is
bound to raise a few eye¬
brows with its latest financial
manoeuvre. How many com¬
panies organise an institu¬
tional placing to repay loans
from their chief executive?

The company's finances
certainly look a touch inces¬
tuous. with Mr Marks being
at one time the company's
largest shareholder and larg¬
est creditor. Even after the
institutional placing, Mr
Marks will still own a com¬
fortable controlling interest

But French Connection’s
outside shareholders owe a
vote of thanks to Mr Marks.
Without his support, there
would be little left of the
company except a dog-eared
receivers’ bill. On two occa¬
sions during the recession
Mr Marks provided funds
for the company when its
bankas dearly thought the
proposition was too risky.
Anyone with the fetch to buy

worldwide refining margins
over the three months.

BFs risk could now be
over-confidence. Two years
ago, the company had little
choice bat to knuckle down
and repay its bankers. To¬
day, with free cash to spare,
lower debt and healthier
margins, it feces a more
difficult choice to boost in¬
vestment or raise the divi¬

dend. Growing energy de¬
mand will tempt many ofl
companies to increase invest¬
ment downstream now, with
die ride of bringing capacity
inm production as the mar¬
ket begins to turn down.
Next year. BP wfil signal
whether the rising tide of
rash win end up in share¬
holders pockets or in ambi¬
tious expansion.

PREMIUM PETROL

British Petroled
shore price

a

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Index

!■

(rebased)

’Nov‘Dec Jan Feb Mar 1 Apr May* Jun Jul ’Aug Sap’ Oct 300

the shares at their low point
of 7p has been well rewarded.

Stripped to its core busi¬
ness. French Connection
looks a thoroughly decent
retail business, with two
strong brand nam es. Gear¬
ing is low despite the store
development programme-
profits are forecast by bro¬
kers to reach £6.7 nrillian this
year, putting the shares on a
p/e ratio of only nine at the
233p placing price. The com¬
pany^ return to the dividend
list is also a welcome develop¬
ment and makes the shares
look reasonable value.

Flemings

IF you-believe-OECD fore¬
casts on economic growth,
natural resources look a
tempting stock market play.
Several fund managers,
joined yesterday by Flem¬
ings. have launched trusts of¬
fering a piece of the action.

The rationale is simple: the
price of commodities such as
oil and base metals are at his¬
toric lows in real terms when

the world economy is picking
up and. more important the
emerging Asian economies
are demanding more energy
and rawmaterials. The argu¬
ment runs that the prospects
look good for natural re-,
sources and numy companies
are recovering from heavy
losses suffered in the reces¬
sion leading to interesting re¬
covery opportunities.

Flemings’ trust is putting
30 per rent jn oil shares'
where the bull scenario is
based on growing demand
but investors should be
awaretbaf long-term oil -
price trends have hitherto
been poor^Saudi Arabia, ftfe :
largest producer, has-ample -
•capacity to-meet any sharp
peaks in demand.

To get the biggest bang for
their bucks, fond managers,
will need to target special situ¬
ations and smaller companies
as rising commodity price ex¬
pectations have already boost¬
ed the prices of the more solid
raining and ofl groups.

Edited by Neil Bennett

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(-394) TO V. 144 TO 14 Iff, 264

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(■192) 200 7 1 , II 1 , 174 13 19 21',

Forte_ 220 Iff, 2S 29 4 64 II',

0ZU4I 240 7 14 18 13 15 514

HlUsdwn.. 160 114 IS 19 34 64 II

(■IC64I 180 3 54 10 !5 17 23

UmiPo— 130 8 114 15 54 TO 12

f 130*4 140 4 74 TO 114 164 18

Sens_100 94 12 14 1 34 9.

rim 110 4 7 84 5 8 Iff.-

TUm eml. 950 50 63 86*, 124 274 354

(-9824) 1000 22 384 58 34 52 »

TOmUns _ 200 Iff, 21 254 y, 74 Iff,

mi) 220 6 II 154 13 18 204

TSB_ 220 134 19 23 54 12 15

(•2Z7M 240 4 94 144 17 234 Z64

Weflcomc KD 49", 68 79 14 254 37

(■6301 6W 224 42 53 37 49 614

_ Series Jaa Apr Jnl in Apr M

Glam— 550 (04 72 324 Iff, 23 25

«941 600 304 434 564 304 45 514

HSBC-TOO Sff, 67-, 784 24 474 57

1*7184) 750 274 444 554 SI 7b 85

Reuter _ 460 3!', 47 56 II'. Iff: 234

(S82M 500 I* 264 36 30 38 43

_ Sexto Nae Feb May Noe EcfcMay

R-Boyn— 160 174 23 26 1 34 7

(*17b 1 >j 180 4 12 15 74 12 16

_ Serto Pee Mar Jgn Dec Mar Jon

Finns- 110 10 14'. 18 44 7 9

MI61 120 54 10 13*, 10 12 14

_ Soto Not FcfcMayNr IttMay

Eastern Gp 800 33 56 IT. IS4 »: SO:

1-8211 8S0 10 32 51 45 66 7S4

_ Scrip Dec Mar Jan Per Mar Jna

Nail PWI._ 460 414 53 6* P, 124 304
t'49641 500 17 JO 41 TO »4 3ff,

Sul For- JW 18 », 36 15 244 »,

{*3601 3W ? Iff. 234 34 42 47

Period

Open

High

Low

doeeVofauuc

FT-SE 100

Dec 94 —

30890

31250

30852)

311935

12012

Prerious open Interest: 57530

Mar 95-

31210

31210

ji no

31385

2

Three Month Sterling

Dec <M „

9147

9157

9139

9151

34081

Previous open 1 merest: 484295

Mar 95 _

QZ60

92.76

9253

9270

3Z7S7

Jun 95 _

91.94

92.11

9151

92255

K»9I

Three Mth Eurodollar

Dec « _

94.01

0

Previous open Interest: 42S2

Mar 95-

9354

0

Three Mth Euro DM

Dec 94 _

944Q

°44J3

94J0

9482

10665

Previous open Interest: 680560

Mar 95 -

9454

9455

94J0

9453

19625

Long Gilt

Dec 94 ..

100-16

101-08

10008

101-07

41318

previous open Interest: 106381

Mar 95 .

99-23

99-23

99-3

100-11

. 5

Japanese Govrnt Bond

Dra<M _

ioboo

-108.17

107.97

1082)9

1930

Mar 95 _

107.24

107 JS

10723

10752

186

German Gov Bd Bond

Dec 94 _

m.u

K9J9

88.95

8954

85PM

Previous open interest 179593

Mar 95 _

5134

*8.40

83

8854

1342

German Gov Bd Bobl

Dec 94 ...

Previous open I merest 0

Three month ECU

Dec „.

9U9

9189

9384

9188

372

previous open interest 22750

Mar 95._

93.43

93.45

9139

910

406

Euro Swiss Franc

Dec 94 .

9555

95J17

95^2

9555

2035

Previous open (merest 4410

Marts-

9151

9556

9550

9553

1201

Italian Govmt Bond

Dec 94 _

99 85

10059

99.75

1 Off 09

23411

Previous open interest 64617

Mar 95 _

9955

0

MONEY RATES (%)

Base Rates: Clearing Banks 5*. Finance Hte 6

Discount Market Loans 0/night high: 64 Low P> week fUed: 54

Treasury BSls (DishBuy; 2 mih v,: 3 nun 5*<. Sell; 2 mth 54:3 mill: 9,.

1 ndb

2nah

3 mth

6 mth

12 mb

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6*r66

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5J2-S.19

n/a

557-553

55M53

6.464.43

5 , ’i.-S* , b

6*r6*»

ff*-<*»

7’ J -76

Local Authority Dtps 5*n n/a 5"u I'm

Sterling CDs S* 1 ^. 5=*n-S^u 6*^* ffr64 TwT*

Dollar CDs 5J2-S.IP n/a 5J7-553 iS6-5J3 6.464.43

BuBdiitg Society CDs 5 n i--S" B S'*--?'. 6'r6'» 6"-<*. 7’i-74

ECGD: Fixed Rate Sterling Export Finance. Make-up day: Aug 31.1994 Agreed rate
Sep 26.199410 Ocr 25.1994 5cfleme ill: 6ii2 %. ReTerence rate July 30. !994ioAug3i.
1994 Scheme rv & v- S578%.

- EUROPEAN MONEY PEPOSfTS <%)

Currency

7 day

1 mth

3 snh

6 ratal

Call

Dollar:

4*r4*.

S'-r-ff*.

S6-56

4V36

Dratsthemark:

4' , *r ,1| in

4*«-T.

5*urS'u

5-1

French Franc

5’™-S*»

5*«-5*.

5V56

S***-* 1 *

S*r4>.

Swiss Franc

3V5':

3V3*«

4V3*'-

4'i^4'i,

4*r-3'i

Yen:

2?ir2? t

ZV26

zvr.

Z'f-r,

GOLD/PRECiOUS METALS (Baird& Co) -•

BuHioo: Open S383-2KH3.60 Close S383A5-384.IS High: *384.65-385.15
Low. S38! -5O-3810Q AM: $383.45 PM: S384J0
Krugerrand: s&oOOJ&.OP IL237XX>ZBJX>t

Platinum: S4M.60 (L25J.*J( SHner: J5J5 (UJ05) Pallarimai: JIF8.B5 C97.ICT

I : STERLING SPOT AND FORWARD RATES.-

Mid Rates for Nov 1

Amsterdam-

Brussels-

Copenhagen-

Dublin_

Frankfurt-

Lisbon——-

Madrid-

Milan--—

Montreal—.

sev York--

Oslo-

Parts-

Stockholm-

Tokyo--—

Vienna —-_....

Zurich--

Source Erie/

Range

2.7332-3.7544
50-2CV50.62
953«JM.6l 10
1.0095-1 0153
2.4406-2.4576
249.46-251.26
203 35-304.57
2S06.10-2523.40
22080-12155
16310-1*374
10 6270-10.7090
3J45M.4H0
11^720-11.7430
157.87-158,56
■7^0-17 J9
2XG54-2.0537

Close I ttfidta 3 uoutii

2.733227366 '•■'■pr ’*-4pr

5020-50JO 8-4pr l5-«pr

9539MJS« V'rflJ VI'.-dS

10095-10121 5-2pr 15-Hpr

24406-14438 '••'•pr V4Jr

249.46-250-11 W-ICCas 404-W4d5

7rn 34.7m 65 32-41 Qs 88-lends

2506.10-25 KUO ^ 7as 16- IMS

Z20SO22111 0-144106pr 024-0 12pr

1*310-1.6320 OOW)JJ8pr 02l-0.l8pr

106270106430 VlVds Vl'rtJs

8J450-SJ600 ’-pr-Pir l-'.pr

11.7180-117430 |V?-13 ,^6'sls

15787-158.15 tVl'ipr

17JO-I7J4 IV.pT 5VP.pr

2U354-2Q364 . V^jr IV.pr

Premium - pr. Otsamnj . ds.

Australia-

Austria--

Belgium (Coraj-

mmaiin , _ . _

Denmark-

France-

Germany-

Hong Kong-

Iretand-

Italy__

japan -

Malaysia-

Netherlands-

Norway-

Portugal-

Singapore-

spam--

Sweden-

Switzerland -

-1-3497-1.3506

-1060-1061

_30.75-30.79

_1J547-1J5S2

5-851008540

- 5.1255-5.1265

_ 1/4964-1.4069

_ 7.7272-7.7277

-1.6176-1.6201

- 153000-1538X0

- 963306X0

-25570-25560

-- 15770-15780

_ 65205-65235

_1S2.90-1S3.10

- 1/4664-1/4674

- 124.60-124.70

_ 7.1615-7.1690

-I-2484-1.2469

Novi On 31

midday due

Npy I OctS
midday dor

Australia dollar-

Bahrain dinar-

Braze real*-

Cyprus pound_

Finland markka_

Greece drachma-

Hong Kong dollar_

India rupee —-

Kuwait dinar KD_

Malaysia ringgit -

Mexico peso-

New Zealand dollar _

Pakistan rupee-

Saudi Arabia rtyal_

Singapore dollar-

S Africa rand (fin)_

S Africa rand (coral

U A E dirham_

Barclay* Book GTS

- 15328-15355

-22I04-Z2129

_ 051100.6230

—- J-379S-JJ837
- 0.745-0.755

- 7.462-7578

_37S2S-382.25

... L255Q2-1X6549

- 5057-5153

_0.481-0.491

- 4.1866-4.1895

-55425-55425

- 25588-Z6640

-453 buy

-6579552055

_X4009-Z4033

- 6589055422

- S.7103-5.7188

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ASDA Gp 2.400
Abbey Natl (JO)
Allied Dom 839
AigyO Gp 2S00
AflO Wlggn 3.100
AB Foods 189
BAA 1,900

BATlnds 3500
BOC 928

BP 9500

BTR 6500

BT 4500

Bk oi Scot urn
Barclays 4503
Bass 941

Blue aide 2500
Boots 873

B water 843
Bril Aero 1500

Brit Alnvys 4500

Bril Gas 9000

Bril Steel 5500

BurmahCnl 291
Cable wire 4500
Cadbury 1.400
Caradon 539
Carlton Cms 2500
cm union iaoo
couroulds 832
De U Rue 1500
Eastern Qee 1500
EmerprOl! 586
Forte 2500

GKN 338

ORE 1500

GUS 921

G«l ACC 774
Gen Elec 1300
Glaxo 3500
Granada 578
Grand Met 3500
Guinness Z400
HSBC (.700

Hanson 6500

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Inchrape liXB
KlngOiber 856

Ladbroke 4.40a
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Legal A Gn B11
Lloyds Bh 2500
MEPC 1500
Marts Spr 4500
NatWStBk 1500
Mar Power 2500
Nth WS W 670
PAO 1.400
Pearson 2 jQoo
P owetGeo 1.700
Prudential 1.705
BMC 380

RTZ 2.400

BankOig IXOO
Redon Col Z400
Redland 1500
Reed 1ml UXJO
Remold! S8?
Reuters 2.705
Rods Royce 2.900
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Sainsbuiy (500
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Scot 41 New 730
Scot Power 664
Sears 1.700
Smt Trent 882
Shell Trans 3,100
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5td Chand 4000
Sun Allnce 1500
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Tesco 825

Thames W 6500
Thrtl EMI 301
Tomuna 2.100
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wart>uig(SG} 979
Wellcome 778
Whitbread 1500
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I

THE TIMES WEDNPsnAV NOVEMBER 21994

ANALYSIS 29

THE

TIMES

DIARY

Millar aboard
at CJydepoit

CLYDE PORT Holdings;
the privatised port opera¬
tic that is based in Scot-
and* win surdy be a'share
to. watch dbs%' when a
floats on tbe stock market
fater this year. For, ap¬
pointed to the board yester-
.day. in a.noo-executive
role. is none -other than.
James Millar, the pugna¬
cious Scottish industrialist
who has attracted'more
than bis fair. Tshaireof
corporate activity in the
past Millar was at the
beta at Invergonlaa Dis-
tilters during its protracted
takeover battle, with Whyte'
& Mackay. The Ainerican-
owned Whyte & Mackay
launched its first bid in
1991 at 225p a share, a 38
per cent premium to the
then market price, but
Millar's men’ put up such
stiff opposition that Whyte
& Mackay had to wait two
years to complete the take¬
over at 300p. More recent¬
ly, MiBarwas abktoplay
Tesco off against J
Salisbury to secure what
was regarded as. a phe¬
nomenally hi gh price-for
Wm Low, the less4iaiH
successful Scottish super¬
market chain where he
was also the dfafnhaii.'
Tesco won the day. but at a
price: the kaodmut offer
was worth 360p. compared
with a I69p prebid price.

On your maxis

ALLspeed to Mari: Mont¬
gomery,head of dealing at
Hoang & Co, the Ameri-
cazHmned soft Conrans-
sioo broker, win has been
hard at work for

this Sunday's New York
CityMara&pnMoBtgoin-
ay, 30, has managed to
squeeze ■ b et wee n -EjPOO
and £L50O in^ponaorstwp
oid of his City contacts, in
sphe of *raodest. track
record — the bttt
race he tadcfed was file '
London Marathon m M83.
He files out today- Funds
raised wiflgo ro Shdto;
the charity for tameless
people.

CBI fears good times
are too good to last

Industry fears that
the Government

will cut taxes and
raise interest rates,
says Philip Bassett

oward Davies has a prob¬
lem. Wife tbe economy
improving — gr o wth , ex¬
ports and investment all
up. unemployment down and inflation
stdl low — what has British business
got to moan about? As the director-
general of the CBI prepares for his
organisation’s annual conference in
Birmingham, .which: begins at the
weekend, be poses the dfle rnrna him¬
self: “The economy is doing weD. So
what has business got to mm phrin
aboutnow?"

However good dungs seem; busi¬
nessmen, like ianners, always seem to
want more. Charles Wartfie, the indus¬
try minister, says of British industry:
There will always be more that people
want from government—just as there
is always a great deal more that
industry can do for itself." Mr Davies
is determined to solve tbe problem by
offering the Government solutions to
what he sees as looming difficulties.

He will try to defied, too. tbe
potential of tbe CBI gathering to be a
blend of wish list and complaints by
deploying a galaxy of star outside
speakers — Kenneth Clarke, Michael
Hesdtine andVirginia Bottomley from
the Government; Paddy Ashdown and
Robin Code from tbe Opposition
benches; Ruud Lubbers ami Padraig
Flynn from Europe; Rill Jordan from
the unions. (Afew industrialists will be
smuggled in to speak, too.)

Merging? Not bs

SPECULATION about a
possible merger between
the Halifax Bafldirqj Soci¬
ety and tbe Leeds Perma¬
nent the United King¬
dom's fifth largest society,
r e fuses to die down. The
rumour mill went into
overdrive yesterday after
tbe Halifax hekf a national
fm:. its senior

(be first such event in four
years. Mike Blackburn,
the Halifax chief executive
who occupied the same
post at tbe Leeds until 18
months ago, is reported to

have made a mission state¬
ment to stafii having
toured the society's
brandies over the past

year, a spokesman denied
this iadudedany talk of a
merger, but industry ob¬
servers still believe thal the
two societies an moving

Sugar suspense

WHAT does Aten. Sugar
have op iris sleeve tins
timer The Amsbnd Cham-

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about Nothing like a bit of

suspense.

Jon Ashworth

The CBI's leader likes to 'walk'the
fine joining government and business
— ’a line'.that hac do minated the
political agenda in recent days. Busi¬
ness is a natural supporter of the
Conservative Party, and Mr Davies
does not believe that allegations of Tory
^sJeaaewifl have modi changed that —
though he acknowledges that Conser-
vative ministers’hotel bills are aslflcriy
to be gossiped about in the boardroom
as at Westminister.

The only aspect on which it does
have an impact," he said, in a pre-
conference interview with The Times.
is that the longer tbe Government
remains as unpopular as it certainly is
in the pofls, people will say the mare
theyww have to-do,pa die economy—
the tax-cutting side—to recover."

Here lies the core cfwhat Mr Davies
and business have to “moan" about
<31 leaders believe the current policy
mix on the economy is about right and
in its proposals for this month’s
Budget, the CBI suggests little more
than some fine tuning of the present
blend of a relatively tight fiscal policy
and a relatively loose monetary policy.

The politics and economics are
roughly moving together," Mr Davies
said. “Ken Clarke has taken the view
that yon have to maintain your tax
increases whatever the political conse¬
quences, so what you would see as a
virtuous economic .policy is currently
seen by Ken Clarke as a virtuous
political policy .•

The CBI is worried that that may not

Howard Davies wants a steady as she goes approach on the economy

last—so Mr Davies sees business’s job
as stressing the importance of the
present policy mix for strengthening
and sustaining economic recovery,
without building in any elements —
especially on inflation — that bode
badly for the future.

But business leaders recognise that
that mix is not necessarily politically
popular, and that pressure will build
up. probably next year, for changes
ahead of the next election.

“It's fairly dear that there will be a

fiscal relaxation be- _ "_

tween now and the
next election. "Mr Da¬
vies says. There is a
risk that the Govern¬
ment will seek to cut
taxes sharply ahead of
tbe election." Hie CBI
thinks it should not,
but suspects that it
wilL likewise, it sees
no need for a further
rise in interest rates,

but believes more in- _

creases are on the
way. Mr Davies acknowledges that
pressures appear to be building up on
pay, and certainly on input prices, but
says these are less homogeneous than
they appear, with many sectors, such
as energy and retailing, not showing
any price rises yet at alL

In any case, the confederation doubts

The CBI chief
thinks Europe
is almost as
big a problem
for Labour as
for the Tories

whether a further interest rate rise
would help much, and while its leaders
concede that some shift in the value of
sterling might do so. it is extremely
unwilling to see any increase in the
currency's real exchange rate.

If “steady as she goes" is broadly the
message that will be relayed at the
Birmingham conference, in one area of
die economy, the CBI is set to make a
highly unusual move. Tomorrow, it
will launch a policy initiative aimed at
emphasising the continuing problem
• of unemployment,
and especially long-
taro unemployment,
for the economy and
business. It will draw
on two surveys: one of
employers' attitudes to
unemployment, the
other of the long-term
unemployed them¬
selves — the first such
investigation carried
our t>y a business or-
ganisation. The CBI
will set out what it sees
as business’s responsibilities towards
the unemployed, including the mis¬
match between how unemployed
people might get jobs and where
employers seek to hire people, it will
also propose an extension of in-work
benefits and greater concessions on
earnings, to reduce the number of

people out of work for a long time.

If that all sounds like Tony Blair. Mr
Davies is willing to acknowledge the
greater attractiveness to business of a
Labour Party under Mr Blair’s leader¬
ship. The late John Smith was respect¬
ed by business but thought — despite
his one-member-one-vote victory over
the unions last year — to be still too
close, in policy terms, to (he trade
unions. Mr Blair is perceived, in Mr
Davies's words, as someone who does
not owe the unions “much, if anything,
for his rise, and therefore is free to take
an objective view".

' The CBI leader thinks greater busi¬
ness support for the Blair-led Labour
Party may be little more than a
reflection of Labour's current standing
in the polls. But he acknowledges that
the Labour leader's move against
clause four of the party's constitution —
on common ownership — is “signifi¬
cant” for British industry’s view of
Labour. While few in the Labour Party
believe that clause four is much more
than talismanic, many industrialists
acknowledge privately that its removal
would considerably reduce the symbol¬
ic — and perhaps even the practical —
threat of further nationalisation by a
future Labour government. That
would enhance Labour's acceptability
for business.

The CBI leader believes Europe is
almost as much of a problem for
Labour as it is for the Government But
despite the serial chapter, which
industry resolutely opposes, European
issues are less of a problem for
business. As the CBI conference gets
going on Sunday. Mr Davies will
disclose two new surveys of business,
which he will use in preparing a
package of proposals for industry to
put to the Government on the future
direction of Europe, ahead of the inter¬
governmental conference in 1996.

T he surveys — one of a general
membership sample, the other
covering 500 of the OBI'S most
senior individual figures —
will show continued business support
for the European Union (including a
single currency and economic and
monetary union, which so vexed CB1-
govemment relations this time last
year), and little or none for the optical of
withdrawal, recently floated by Nor¬
man Lamont. the former Chancellor.

Mr Davies detects, too. support in
business for a multi-track, multi-speed
Europe, as sketched out by the Prime
Minister — principally because busi¬
ness leaders probably have a greater
sense of the differing economic
strengths of individual EU member
states than many Conservative
backbenchers.

That economic sense will inevitably
dominate the CBI conference. What
worries business is the prospect that
policies which, it feels, will lead to
steady growth, might be undermined
by short-term requirements that would
plunge the economy back into tradi¬
tional boom and bust.

Mr Davies and other business
leaders want to see ministers keep their
nerve, and maintain present policy,
controlling public expenditure arid
pursuing a longer-term strategy for
borrowing and taxation.

Holding steady sounds like easy
caution, but it is far from risk-free. And
neither is it certain that the Govern¬
ment, gingered up by die CBI and
others, can bring it off in the way
British industry would like to see.

Carl Mortished on a £1.6bn handout for struggling Liverpool

Merseyside grasps an Ecu lifeline

T he great stone battle¬
ships that line Liver¬
pool's waterfront — the
liver building, the Cunazd
building and other symbols of
ovic pnde and. corporate gran¬
deur — would have turned
pink wifli embarrassment yes¬
terday had they known that
bureaucrats in Belgium have
derided that Merseyside is a
pauper and a deserving recipi¬
ent of massive foreign aid.

It is easy to forget that
Merseyside was once rich;
fattened with the profits of
North Atlantic trade. Liver¬
pool^- me r c hant s and finan¬
ciers built a city that now.
contains an enviable collection
of listed buildings.

Over the past three decades
its reputation was shredded,
initially by the lass of much of
fee traffic in the port to
containerisation and union
folly, later by the antics of its
local government leaders and
generally by media appetite
for Liverpool stories of murder
and mayhem.

•Merseyside’s monuments
have in large part survived it
all. offering a pleasant vista to
tihe area’s employed profes¬
sionals who commute from
leafy suburbs through largely
empty streets to the finandal
district Forthose m jobs, life is
pleasant and inexpensive, bur
the lack, of traffic jams tell
another story of emigration
and severe unemployment
, The loss of unskilled jobs in
the dories and the closure of
large nanufaemring plants an
Merseyside has created a
chronic tmemptoyment prob¬
lem with pockets in v Bootle
where as many as half of die
male adult population are out
ofworic.-...

When KPMG Beat Mar¬
wick was asked to do research

Debris of the past Liverpool, where the liver building dominates, is to get European funding

far the European Commis¬
sion, the region’s gross domes¬
tic product per head had fallen
to 75 per cent of the European
average, a trigger-point that
gave Merseyside access to
structural funds. In
Eurospeak, it was designated
Objective 1.

What this means in practice
is a massive injection of cash
into Merseyside. £1.6 billion to
be spent over five years in
infrastructure improvements,
support to business, training,
new technology and leisure
facilities.

Merseyside* infrastructure
includes not just transport but
professional services, universi¬
ties and a sophisticated tele¬
communications network
helped by the presence of
companies like GPT and Ca¬

ble Northwest, which is invest¬
ing £400 million in the area.

Christopher Gibaud. chief
executive of the Mersey Part¬
nership, an organisation
aimed at promoting inward
investment, argues that
Merseyside’s problems may
be port of its salvation in the
1990s, offering low costs, both
in wages and rents to foreign
investors: “We missed out on
the 1980s while others benefit¬
ed, but we now stan from a
low base and we are pretty
competitive."

Curiously, infrastructure is
a focus for the Government,
which is charged with doling
out the cash from Brussels. It
is a bias that irks some
struggling private sector firms
in Merseyside that want direct
access to funds to develop their

businesses rather than glossy
new premises. In the rush of
enthusiasm that followed
what seemed like Merseyside
winning the pools, scores of
firms applied for Objective 1
money, mostly to fall foul of
the Government's unwilling¬
ness to be seen to be lining the
pockets of the private sector.

E nthusiasm for Objec¬
tive I is undiminished
and Merseyside is blos¬
soming with quasi-public bod¬
ies keen to find ways to get
past the Whitehall red tape to
the land of the golden Ecu.

There is, however, a linger¬
ing concern that the govern¬
ment is opposed to the
philosophical background to
Objective 1, based as it is on
the notion of Europe of the
regions with structural funds

seen as the backdoor to a
federal Europe.

The Mersey Partnership
sees its major obstacle, not in
persuading foreigners of the
region’s merits, but credibility
on the home front: “Mersey¬
side is not yet an acceptable
location for some fond manag¬
ers and institutions. We are
pushing at an open door in
Brussels but although the door
is not closed in London, it is
difficult."

Much has changed since
political turmoil of the last
decade and Liverpool’s council
is now respectably dull com¬
pared to the flash theatricals of
Derek Hatton. The city is
proudly gearing up far its bid
for Citv of Architecture in
1999.

Many people are also aware
of the price paid for the city's
heritage and eagerly await
news of jobs and a better life.

In the recently restored Al¬
bert Docks the Merseyside
Maritime Museum has
mounted an exhibition on the
transatlantic slave trade, tell¬
ing in graphic detail how
thousands of ships with press-
ganged crews sailed to the
west coast of Africa, exchang¬
ing guns for slaves and then
taking their cargoes of misery
to the West Inches, swapping
slaves for sugar, tobacco and
bills of exchange to finance the
next voyage.

At the end of the exhibit, the
public is invited to comment.
On a scrap of paper pinned to
a board a black woman asks:
who will compensate us for
this? Another piece of paper
reads: white people were
slaves too. The comments are
small reminders that more
than just the hopes of business
are riding on the success of
Objective 1.

Abbey and its
rivals get the
buying habit

I ncreasing competition
among UK mortgage
lenders is forcing a con¬
solidation of a highly frag¬
mented market. Faced with
lough competition, the need
to cot costs and die pressure
to lend at competitive rates,
mortgage lenders are look¬
ing around at ways to main¬
tain and increase their
market share.

Abbey National’s £56-3
million acquisition of
Household Mortgage Cor¬
poration is one of a series of
purchases of centralised
mortgage lenders by tradi¬
tional mortgage houses.

HMCs £1.6 billion mort¬
gage book is modest in com¬
parison with Abbey's £45
billion book and wfll lift its
share of the domestic mort¬
gage marker only 0.4 per
cent to 12.7 per cent But tra¬
ditional mortgage lenders
are fending off growing
competition from the banks
in a market where there is
tittle new mortgage business
coining through their doors.

The Abbey acquisition is
part of a growing trend for
banks and building societies
to boost their share of the
stagnant domestic mortgage
market through acquisition.

John Franklin, a corpo¬
rate finance director of Fox-
Pi tt. KeJton. the merchant
bank, said the HMC take¬
over was one of the few ways
Abbey could get more assets
on to its book. He said: The
mortgage market is so flat
that tbe only way in which
building societies and bus¬
inesses like Abbey, which is
really a quoted building
society, can get additional
mortgages on to their books
is to make acquisitions.”

He said the market was so
flat and (here was so much
competition for a small
amount of business, that it
was difficult and expensive
for lenders to attract new
business.

Tbe HMC acquisition is
Abbey's second this year. It
bought the £900 million UK
residential mortgage opera¬
tion of the Canadian Imper¬
ial Bank of Commerce
(CIBC) in February.

For building societies,
whose regulations prevent
mortgages from these books
being merged with their
mainstream mortgage busi¬
ness. there is the added
attraction of increasing ac¬
cess to the wholesale fund¬
ing markets — which is
more of an advantage in
times when interest rates are
on the increase.

Last month. Halifax re¬
ceived clearance from the
Department of Trade and
Industry to proceed with its
proposed acquisition of the
£15 billion UK mortgage
book of Banque Nationale
de Paris.

In August, the Nation¬

wide Building Society
bought Lehman Brothers’
£70 million mortgage book.
Birmingham Midshires is
acquiring the £600 million
credit Agricole book, and
last year bought tbe £75
million United Bank of Ku¬
wait book.

However, for Abbey,
which converted to bank
status five years ago. the
advantage is in being able to
offer cheaper funding to
HMC, making its mort¬
gages more competitive.
Mortgages from centralised
lenders are typically more
expensive than those from
building societies and
banks, particularly in a low
interest rate environment

Peter Birch. Abbey’s chief
executive, said Abbey look¬
ed long and hard at wheth¬
er, by taking over HMC, it
would encroach on Abbey’s
existing business. “We were
satisfied that it would not"
he said.

The acquisition will also
increase its distribution
channels. HMCs sales are
all made through indepen¬
dent financial advisers, law¬
yers and accountants.

Mr Birch said HMC wil]
complement the CIBC busi¬
ness. which does not have its
own distribution channel.
He said if Abbey had not
been successful in its bid for
HMC it had plans, at an
advanced stage, to distribute
mortgages through Abbey
National Mortgage Fi¬
nance; which was set up to
run CIBC

Abbey is exploring how to
link the two businesses.
HMC is likely to be used as
an administration centre for
new products from ANMF.
sold through independent
morgtage advisers, as well
as continuing to sell its own
products. Abbey is also
thinking of a systems link
between the two.

T he key advantage for
Abbey in the acquisi¬
tion is that it will be
able to provide funding for
HMC at sub-Libor. "At the
moment. HMC is paying
Libor plus 50 basis points,"
he said. “The attraction for
HMC is that it gives ir long¬
term security, lower cost
funding and the opportunity
to develop and grow the
business.” He said that Ab¬
bey expects HMC to double
Us assets in the next five
years.

The price, at a £263
million premium above net
assets, or 1.6 per cent of the
gross mortgage book, is
probably higher than Abbey
would have paid if it bad
been the only bidder. Never¬
theless. Mr Birch said, it will
be eamings-enhandng from
this year.

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First leisure and Arlington in marinas venture

By Caicl Mortished

uaua Kiuup. is
J**. marina activities
jjaign a jomi venture wfih Arfog-
wn. the property subsidiary of Bm-
Kh Aercspace. Associated Marinas
rambine First Leisure’s Chiches-
?. ™ and Arlington’s Port
^ nt raality, creating a conroany
wifli net assets of W million (wned
P®rts by the two companies,
ine deal is likely to be followed by

Jewel in
G&W crown
thrives in
Hong Kong

furdier moves offshore as John Con-
lan, first Leisure chief, believes mar-
ina prices are now .attractive after a
period of artificially 'high values
during the late 1980s property boom.

"At the end of the 1980s they be¬
came sexy as marinas were thought
to be a property play bin vahies now
are at their lowest level for six years.”
Development of big fapflitigs along¬
side property developments at coast¬
al resorts . such as Brighton
heightened the speculative frenzy ^but
since then the bubble has burst "Our

view is that a marina is a marina is a
marina. We park boats, sell fuel and
coiled rents." Mr Conlan said he
expects profits to grow from a fall in
vacancies at the marinas and in due
course horn increasing capacity.

First Leisure yesterday said it had
made good second-half progress,
with strong trading in the dancing

division where annual sales are 12
per cent ahead of the previous year.
The boost came from more customers
with spend per head up 2 per cent
without price rises. Bingo was 3 per

cent ahead with spend per head up 6
per cent, but the introduction of lower
prices at First Leisure's bowling
alleys initially reduced revenue over
the summer and is expected to affect
seccmd-half margins.

Ftrsi Leisure’s Chichester Marina
is one of the largest in the country
with 1.100 berths. Valued at £iq
million in October 1993. the facility 1
made a profit of £! million last year
and accounts for the lion's share of
the joint venture assets. First Leisure
will receive £5.9 million from the

joint venture to compensate it for
taking only 50 per cent of the equity.
.Arlington's 400-berth Port Solent
Marina was built in 19S8 as part of a
residential and retail complex.

First Leisure is changing its
accounting policies. In future pre^
opening expenses will be amortised
over the first 12 months of [Tiding
rather than over 5 years previously.
The company said that henceforth
one third of the property 1 portfolio
would be valued every year to replace
triennial valuations of all the assets.

French Connection to raise
£4.5m to repay rescue loans

‘ Bv Colin Narbrough

HONG Kong TelecommiKd-
cations, jewd in the crown of
Cable and Wireless, boosted
net profit J5 per. .cent to.
HK$4.19 billion (£33) million)
in die ax months tp Septem¬
ber 30, despite slower growth
in China traffic and lower in¬
ternational cad charges.

Although revenue growth
of U per cent disappointed
City analysts, earnings per
share rose 4.9 cents to 37.6
cents. The dividend rises 35
cents to 26.9 cents.

Linus Cheung, Hong Kong
Telecom chief executive, said
strong growth in mobile oper¬
ations and tight cost controls
were the key fectore behind
the profit improvement

At the operating level, pro-
Sts rose 14 per cent to
HK&4.76 trillion. Pre-tax prof¬
it also rose 14 per cent to
HK$456 billion (HK$i25 bil-
lioo). Turnover rose 11 per
cent to HK$I33 trillion.

Growth of 21 per cent in its
China traffic reflected efforts
by Peking to cool the rapidly
growing economy before it
overheats. China traffic ex¬
pansion had been forecast at
closer to 30 per cent

Hong Kong Telecom, 575
per cent owned Jby C&W,
earned almost two thirds of its
parent group’s pre-tax profit
last year. Shares in C&W.

■- which reports f i rst-half results
next Wednesday, were
marked down 8p to 4i3p after
the Hong Kong figures.

Hong Kong Teteoom has
cut international caff charges
10 per cent oyer the past six
months.

Hie company, which has ar
monopoly on load caffs in
Hong Kong until next year
and on international calls
until 2000, installed its 3
millionth telephone in the
crown colony in the first halt
Its mobile phone network
grew by more than 50,000
subscribers. Calls to China,
which account for as much as
a third of Hong Kong Tele¬
com’s revenue, were unaffect¬
ed by the lower charges.

Mr Cheung said the com¬
pany would spend HK$4
billion on infrastructure in
Hong Kong this year, rein¬
forcing its position as Asia’s
teleco mmunic ations hub.

Mercury Gommonications.
CAW'S UK telecommunica-
tkms subsidiary, yesterday
announced a 46 per cent price
cut for local calls during a i
two-hour daily lunch period, a
27 per cent cut in economy
ami weekend call prices, and
a freeze on line rental charges.

By Neil Bennett

DEPUTY BUSINESS EDITOR

FRENCH Connection, the
fashion retailer, is raising £45
million in a share placing to
"repay loans that Stephen
Marks, its founder and chief
executive, pumped into the
group to rescue it during the
recession.

The company is placing 2.02
million'shares at 233p each
with institutions to raise £453
million. Of this, £355 million
will be used to repay the loans
from Mr Marks, while the rest
will be used to fund the
company's store refurbish¬
ment ami expansion scheme.

Mr Marks is also placing
another 329.000 shares to
reduce his stake in the com¬
pany from 75 to 65 per cent

French Connection nearly
collapsed twice during toe re¬
cession due to fll-judged expan- ■
sxm drives. In 1969 the
company had to be refinanced,
after plunging into losses of
£4.7 million due to a moVe into
contract manufacturing and a
German subsidiary. Bankers
only agreed to bade the com¬
pany if Mr Marks lent £155
mflfion erf his personal fortune.

Thai in 1991, French Con-'
nectian slumped back into
losses after faffing to make a
sucess of its Bukta sportswear
subsidiary. The company
needed refinancing once again
and Mr Marks had to inject
another £2 miUion. The loans
have incurred no interest until
April this year, but die com¬
pany is now paying 2 per cent

all will be revealed

Urn CONKECTiOH

Stephen Marks. French Connection's chief executive, outside the company’s flagship Regent Srreet store

above base rate. The company
has since recovered strongly,
wider a new management
team, by concentrating on its
main retailing and wholesal¬
ing brands of French Connec¬
tion and Nicole FarhL It made
a profit of £3.1 million in toe
six months to July 31 this year
and the shares have surged

from a low point of 7p in 1990
to 244p yesterday.

The company has embarked
on a steady expansion pro¬
gramme and opened a flag¬
ship store in Regent Street in
May and a Nicole Farhi outlet
in Bond Street in September.
Nicholas Mather, toe finance
director, said toe company

was being “very cautious"
about expansion, but hoped to

placing is also intended to
pave toe way for French

open two to three shops a year Connection to graduate from
in Britain in toe next three the Unlisted Securities Market

years and four to five in
America.

to a full listing. After the
placing, the company will

French Connection says it have a market value of almost
plans to start paying divi- £44 million.

derids again at toe end of its
current financial year. The

Tempus. page 2S

Acquisitions and recovery in
markets boost Power screen

By Martin Barrow, city news editor

S wedes abort power
deal with Yorkshire

By Colin Narbrough, world trade correspondent

FOWERSCREEN Interna¬
tional the construction equip¬
ment company based at
Dungannon, Northern Ire¬
land. lifted interim profits by
12 per cent, helped by a
gradual recovery in its mar¬
kets and py acquisitions.

In toe half year to Septem¬
ber 30. profits rose to £14
million from £125 million on
turnover up to £81 million
from £59.4 million. Earnings
increased to 122p a share from
\0.8p and toe interim dividend
rises to 22p a share from 2p.
payable on January 30. Tbe
stores feff TOp to 285p.

Growth in turnover out¬
paced toe rise in profits, rising
36 per cent John Craig, chair-
mart said lower margins were

the result of recent acquisi¬
tions and exchange-rate move¬
ments. The company operated
in competitive markets, but
was confident of continuing
growth supported by aggres¬
sive marketing, new products
and tight cost control. The net

cash position fell to £3.9
million at September 30 from
E1454 million at the end of toe
last financial year, affected by
toe acquisition of Benford Ltd,
a manufacturer of dumpers
and rollers, for £12.9 million in
August

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YORKS HI RE Electricity 's
proposed £150 million acquisi¬
tion of a 17.3 per cent stake in
Stockholm Energi. one of Swe¬
den's largest electricity supply
companies, has been called off
on political grounds.

Compensation has been
agreed with toe Stockholm
municipal authorities which
own the Swedish electricity
company, although toe terms
have yet to be ratified by the
municipal council which
meets on December 6. No
details of toe compensation
arrangements were available.

Stockholm Energi’s owners
rejected the sale, on which
letters of intent were signed in
April, after elections in Sep¬
tember altered toe political
make-up of toe municipal
council.

Sweden’s new social demo¬
crat government is currently
conducting a review of the
privatisation programme

Fleming has
trust in
resources

PRIVATE investors are being
offered a bet on oil and mining
shares this week with the
launch of the Fleming Natural
Resources Investment Trust
which is raising E25 million in
a public offer after placing toe
same amount with institutions
(Carl Mortished writes].

A sharp upturn in toe price
of commodities such as alu¬
minium and copper has led to
toe launch of several commod¬
ity trusts. Ian Henderson,
fund manager at Robert Flem¬
ing. says the outlook for off
prices is good while base met¬
als have much further to go as
the world economy grows.

In an unusual twist, toe
Fleming trust will have a
short lifespan with the direc¬
tors compelled to liquidate the
company between July 1997
and December 1999. The aim
is to maximise gains in what
Fleming believes is the start of
a cyclical upturn and get out
before the next downturn.

The initial portfolio will
j have 30 per cent weightings in
oil and gas, base metal, and
gold mining shares with toe
remainder in other resource
stocks. Minimum investment
is £2,000 and investors will
receive 1 warrant for every five
shares, exercisable at 125p.

Tempos, page 28

planned by toe centre-right
administration ousted last
month.

The Yorkshire spokesman
said the Stockholm deal was
off, but that his company had
a “whole host of ideas’* for
other investment targets. He
saw no return to die Swedish
deal.

A Stockholm city hall offi¬
cial said the decision to call off
the Yorkshire deal meant that
the planned flotation of Stock¬
holm Energi would now not
go ahead. He was unable to
say how much toe deal would
cost in compensation.

Although the municipal au¬
thorities chose to cancel the
sale of a minority stake in
Stockholm Energi to York¬
shire, they said yesterday that
they had derided to go ahead
with toe planned sale of one of
the city’s cable television com¬
panies to Singapore Telecom.
No details were released.

| BUSINESS ROUNDUP; / . j

Losses deepen at
Celsis International

LOSSES at Celsis Internationa], the contamination detec¬
tion equipment maker, deepened to £22 million before tax
from £560.000 in the six months to September 30 and cash
balances fell to £8.7 million from £11.1 million. The results
were well within toe group's expectations. The shares
remained unchanged at 72p. compared with the July 1993
flotation price of lOOp.

The worsening losses in the first half reflected the higher
costs associated with moving from development to
marketing and selling. John Precious, chairman, said: “As
CeIsis's products advance towards commercialisation,
expenditure has increased on establishing a commercial
organisation.” Over toe past year staff numbers have more
than doubled from 34 to 74. of whom 26 work in Celsis's
commercial arm. Turnover rose to £302.000 from £79.000.

Shake-up at Jarvis

JARVIS, the troubled property and construction group, has
appointed four new directors, including Paris Moayedi as
chief executive and Henry Lafferty as finance director.
Roger Payton will become non-executive chairman. The
new management will subscribe for 25 million new shares
at 10p. raising £250.000. and will be granted options over a
further 25 million shares. After fust-half losses of £2.98
million, net assets fell to £10 million at June 30 from £162
million six months earlier. Net borrowings have risen to
£12.9 million.

Receivership for Storm

PETER Storm, toe outdoor clothes group, has gone into
receivership at the request of the directors. Price
Waterhouse, the accountant and management consultant, is
now running toe company, and will try to sell it as a going
concern. Peter Storm has been making outdoor dotoes since
1954. They are sold throughout the UK and toe rest of toe
world. The receivership involves toe proofing business in
Manchester, which trades under toe name Storm proofings,
toe UK manufacturing base in Skegness and the Notting¬
ham companies that distribute toe clothes.

Engen slips on oil prices

ENGEN, South Africa's biggest oil company, said net
income fell 13 per cent to Rand 416 million (E73 million) from
Rand 480 million in the year to the end of August En gen’s
profits were hit by a worldwide decrease of about a $1 a
barrel in refining margins in the second half of its financial
year. Costs grew only 2 per cent in an inflationary
environment of around 11 per cent said Rob AngeL chief
executive. The work force had been cut by 15 per cent with
about 500 middle and senior managers taking redundancy.
The dividend was maintained at 154 cents per share.

Rexmore raises payout

REXMORE. toe supplier of upholstery and timber products..
encountered difficult trading conditions in toe second
quarter but said toe normal seasonal increase in activity was
under way in the opening weeks of the second half. In the six
months to October 1. the company increased pre-tax profits
to £838.000 from E6SS.OOO on sales from continuing
operations of £153 million (£15.1 million). Earnings fell to
4.07p a share from 4.44p, reflecting a higher tax charge, but
the interim dividend is increased to 15p a share from Ip.
pavable on January 20. The shares were unchanged at 7Sp.

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Answers from page 4S
PADKOS

(c) Food for toe journey, provisions, also pa

(c) Food for the journey, provisions, also padkosi . erroneously
palkoss. from the Afrikaans pad a road ♦ kos (Dutch kost) food:
“No .Afrikaner ventures forth on a journey of more than a few
miles without his padkos ffood for the road"), and our new
friends were seemingly’ equipped for a fortnight's safari.”
P1SMO

(a) A large, thick-shelled, edible dam. Tiwlla smltonim,
belonging to the family Veneridac and found on the south-west
coast of North .America. "Five minutes of bare foot beach
scratching had uncovered half a sack of four-inch Pismo dams.”
RAVIGOTE

(b) A herbal pick-me-up. from toe French ravigoier to invigorate.
“Ravigote. pick-me-up.. - from the French verb ravigoter, to
cheer or strengthen. The French give the name of Ravigote to an
assemblage of four herbs — tarragon, chervil, chives, burn el —
minrfd small or used as a faggot, and supposed to have a rare
faculty of resuscitation.”

POONTANG

(c) Sexual intercourse, see women collectively, or a woman,

regarded as a means of sexual gratification: hence, as an
intransitive verb, to copulate. US slang, probably from toe
French putain a prostitute. Richard Condon. The Manchurian
Candidate. 1959: “Every now and then I think abonl you coming
all toe way to Korea from New Jersey to get your first piece of
poontang." _

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Ove Arop, the British consultancy of the year, won the award for its work on the Kansai International Airport terminal, which is built on an artificial island at Osaka in Japan

High-flyers show the flag

O n almost every im¬
portant construc¬
tion project in the
world there • is a
British 'consultant at work,
bringing back valuable invisi¬
ble earnings and helpin g to
steer orders for materials;
plant and equipment towards
British companies.

The importance of die work ,
by British consultancies iri die
world market was emphasised
yesterday by the Duke of
Gloucester who presented
this year’s awardsmade by the
British Consultants Bureau
(BCB) to companies and indi¬
viduals who have had out¬
standing successes..

The Duke, who is president
of the BC& said: ”1 believe that
the bureau has played an
important part in Hx 'great
success that British consul-'
lants have fasi In the interna¬
tional market I have been
associated with die bureau far
owr 15 years and have con¬
stantly been impressed^ by flic
many ways it hdps British
consultantswin more business
overseas."

Last year there were only
eight countries in the world
where British consultancies
were not operating. Overall,
the consultancies brought in
□5 Wlion in overseas earn¬
ings. The figures for 1994 are
expected to top this.

The success of British consultancies handling foreign construction projects
means more contracts for home-based companies. David Young reports

The work of the consultants
is also an indicator of how the
world , economies are develop¬
ing, with 41 British consul¬
tants in China, 41 in Russia. 40
in Malaysia, 39 in Germany,
37 in Indonesia and 36 in the
United Arab Emirates.

In terms of fee income, Asia
and the Pacific region account¬
ed for 413per cent of earnings.

Nigel Thompson, chair man
of the BCB and a dir e ctor of
the consulting engineers Ove
-Ariq? Partnership, said; “More
than 40 per cent of member
firms’ earnings are from over¬
seas, which is far higher than
for most manufacturing in¬
dustries. Consultancy dearly
remains a major co ntri b u tor
to Britanra. overseas eantins.
and looks as if it wQTreinam '
so." •-

Mr Thompson added dial
as British consultancies were
often the first to be concerned
with an overseas project, work
frequently flowed to Britain’s
construction and supply com¬
panies. “We estimate that the
multiplyer factor of the work
which we undertake must be
anywhere between ten and
2S,”hesaid. .. ..

Ove Arup was named yes¬

terday as the consultancy of
the year for its work on foe
Kansai International Airport
terminal at Osaka in Japan.

The project, which was over¬
seen for Ove Arup by Philip
DiDey, a director, has cap¬
tured the imagination of foe
public throughout foe world,
with its spectacular terminal
built on an equally impressive
artificial island.

Together, foe island and
terminal form cme of the most
extraordinary works of engi¬
neering and architecture of all
time, though unlike other his¬
torical feats of engineering,
such as the pyramids or med¬
ieval cathedrals which took
decades . to complete, the
Kansai prefect was completed
in six years. :_

The mite-tang terminal is
the world's largest building.
Apart from the Great Wall of
China, it is said to be foe only
man-matte structure viable
from space. The task of design¬
ing it was awarded to Renzo
Piano’s Building Workshop,
based in Genoa and Paris.
However. Signor Piano insist¬
ed that Ove Arup must be
appointed as his consulting
engineers. The two companies

had worked together in the
past and Signor Piano, who
also jointly designed foe Pom¬
pidou Centre, made it clear to
foe Japanese authorities that
without Ove Amp’s expertise
foe problems faced during the
Osaka project could be
insurmountable.

This was to be a building, he
insisted, where the work of
architect and engineer is all
but indistinguishable.

The artificial island was
created from foe rock provided
by removing an entire moun¬
tain near Osaka bay. It will
never be folly stable, but
passengers will be reassured
to know that through Ove
Amp'S expertise, the terminal
is supported by hundreds of
steel columns sunk into a raft
of concrete and that each
column can be jacked up or

down as the building flexes in
response to shifts in foe struc¬
ture of foe island. Such move¬
ments are constantly monit¬
ored by a computer, which
controls every aspect of the
building's services and
structure.

Another bonus for Britain
was foe realisation that only
here could much of foe intri¬
cate structural steelwork be
fabricated. It was supplied by
Watson Steel of Bolton. Lanca¬
shire, with foe raw materials
coming from British Steel at a
price that the Japanese steel
industry could not match.

The Japanese engineers and
architects working on foe
project were also impressed
that foe complex steel fabrica¬
tions and forgings arrived
from Bolton precisely on
schedule and in the correct

order, enabling uninterrupted
construction work — a fact
which has not gone unnoticed
and which bodes weU for
British companies chasing
other big contracts in Asia and
foe Pacific region.

The involvement of Ove
Arup in the Kansai project
meant that £11 million of work
was won by Watson Steel and
a British manufacturer won
Japanese approval for the use
of its fire-fighting systems,
previously not permitted in
Japan. This has opened a
potentially vast new market
for such systems, as many
countries in foe region adopt
foe rigorous construction Jap¬
anese standards.

As foe Duke of Gloucester
has pointed out. foe great
strength of foe British consul¬
tancy sector is its vast experi¬
ence and its independence. At
foe same time it has foe ability
to provide a market for other
British goods and services in
international projects.

HERE are this year’s awards
presented by foe British Con¬
sultants Bureau and spon¬
sored by The Times.

• Class I: British Consultant
of the Year 1994: Shi dan

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• Oass i British Consultan¬
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Arup Partnership, of London,
for its work on structural,
building services and fire safe¬
ty engineering at Kansai Inter¬
national Airport, Osaka,
Japan. Very Highly Comm¬
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Group, of Cambridge, for its
work for the Shanghai Munic¬
ipal Government China, on a
new water treatment and sup¬
ply system for the city.

• Class 3: British Small Con¬
sultancy Firm of foe Year
1994: PTRC Education and
Research Services, of London,
for its work in designing a
training programme to sup¬
port foe Mexican medium-size
cities urban transport project
for foe Mexican government

• Class 4: Consistent British
Consultancy Achievement
1994: Ove Arup Partnership,
of London, for its involvement
in civil, industrial and build¬
ing projects overseas since
1946. Commended: PTRC
Education and Research Ser¬
vices. of London, for its work
over the past ten years in
designing training projects
in more than 25 countries
for staff in government plan¬
ning and transportation de¬
partments.

Projects that
test the best

Award-winning work involves
both efficiency and diplomacy

T he variety of the envi¬
ronments in which
British consultancies
have to work and foe com¬
plex contractual arrange¬
ments they have to supervise
was well illustrated by many
of the entries in this year’s
British Consultants Bureau
awards, including that of the
winner of the individual
award. Shi dan Kouchek-
Zadeh.

His company. Thorbum
Colquhoun. was first ap¬
pointed in 1979 by foe gov¬
ernment of Guinea to
supervise the construction of
wells, pumping stations and
reservoirs to upgrade the
water supply system for foe
rapidly growing capital,
Cbnakry. In 1991. foe com¬
pany was appointed as the
lead consultant to supervise
the construction of foe sec¬
ond phase of
foe project in a
joint venture
with Safege of
France. This in¬
volved the su¬
pervision of
seven separate
contracts
awarded to
four different
foreign firms.

The issue was
further compli¬
cated in that
foe diem for foe contracts
was the state water com¬
pany. which was responsible
for the investment pro¬
gramme. while a private
French company was given
responsibility for the man¬
agement of water treatment
and distribution. This deri¬
sion effectively meant that
Thorbum Colquhoun was
working for two clients mi
one project.

Shidan Kouchek-Zadeh.
who went to sdiool in
Bournemouth. Dorset, and
then qualified as a civil
engineer at UM1ST. was
appointed chief resident en¬
gineer largely because of his
pperience on similar pro¬
jects in Sierra Leone. Ghana
and Nigeria. He co¬
ordinated foe work of the
funding agencies, the clients

Consultant of the year
Shidan Kouchek-Zadeb

and the contractors. All com¬
munications were in French
and all foe contracts carried
out under the French legal
system.

The contract was complet¬
ed ahead of schedule. $10
million (about £6 million)
below budget with no
daims being made by foe
contractors and with foe
completed water treatment
plant operating at 25 per cent
above its design loading. His
success has meant that
Thorbum Colquhoun has
had hs involvement extend¬
ed to cover three more
contracts.

The diversity of foe consul¬
tancy industry is also Illus¬
trated fay PTRC Education
and Research Services, foe
company which has won foe
award for the small consul¬
tancy of the year. The com¬
pany. in associ¬
ation with Steer
Davies Cleave,
of London, car¬
ried out a
project finan¬
ced by loans
Cram the World
Bank and foe
European
Bank for Re¬
construction
and Develop¬
ment to help
Mexico to de¬
velop its public transport in
its growing medium-sized
cities.

TJie award to foe Ove
Arup Partnership for consis¬
tent consultancy achieve¬
ment rewards 48 years of
contribution by the company
to Britain’s invisible earn¬
ings. The company is now
one of foe world’s largest
consultancies, with 4,000
staff working in 26 countries.

Ove Arup has been in¬
volved in every type of
project, from airports to zoos,
with prestige projects such
as foe Sydney Opera House,
and Qatar University. Its
earnings have risen steadily
during foe past five years
from ' £11 million to £51
million.

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The new-style Harry
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Albert Hall fans happy,
others disgruntled

THEATRE: Veteran director Sir Peter Hall on Princes of Denmark past, present and future; plus the latest reviews

Hamlet’s Hall of fame

Peter Hall’s production of
Hamlet is-bound to be a
jaflure. No matter dud this is
8^ professional t3t at it,
ana mat It is therefore; the Shake-
s peare pfay which he has most often
atreOed. Failure s talks _tfae work as
-r swsiy as ntertia tktes its heira
SjKcess would be a suspect'..and

almost unnatural cOTditiao. *

Hk 1965 Hamlet, with David
Warner in the part remains among
the most famous things he has done,
yet when it opened it received just one
good, notice. In Hall-s view .ihe
audiences went in, as Hamlet audi-
.cnees always'seem to do, expecting
both die play and the t^incie to be
something else, and then came out
disappointed.

The renamed Gielgud Theatre opens on Friday with Hamlet. Will
Peter Hall’s third attempt be his best? Alan Franks reports

PETER TRIEVNQR

“Of all the plays,” says the veteran
mreaor, “this is the ; one that most
moves ot, as if of its own accord, and
the one that most infuriates. lt has the
capacity both to reflect its-own age
and toupset. Very, few that survive in
the coitective memory .were well
received when th^y were done.^

• Hall’s acknowi«igement of per¬
ceived inadequacies doesnot concern
the play so mudi as . its successive
interpretatkms- The thrust of his
argument is that the best a produo-
hon can hope for is a kind of deferred
triumph, one that Only becomes
apparent when the next big Hamlet
fails to be like its predecessor.

Any cynic worthy of the name must'
be tempted to reply that this is an
ingenioasly drafted Hamlet Direc¬
tors’ Charter, guaranteeing that its
me m bers are held to be ahead of their
time. Hall is, of course, expecting no
such indulgence. “I am simply saying
that if you do it honestty and are; as a
group, truly responsive to what
Shakespeare wrote, you will end up
by reflecting your own age in a way
uthat is sometimes too dose, to be.
properly appreciated. ■

“I had no idea, when we were
doing the Warner- Hamlet, that we
were in effect doing the-1960s flower-
power version, the man of apathy, the
studem prmce. leading .up to les
ivinemeatsWo or three ^ears lator.
As for as I was concerned, we Were -
jurt doing the play. Then wife Albert
Finney [1975 az the National), I also
had no idea that we were dealing
with quite such ferocious bitterness.
This was 4he previous decade’s
dream going, wrong. Albert was a
bladt, angry HahrieL carrying round
this realty tenibte weight of crashed
hopes. And I think thm m that time,
m the 1970s, there was a strong sense
of expectations unfulfilled”

So what is the new, Stephen
Dtflane Hamlet telling us about our
time? Hall replies that he is too dose
10 know. Having seen it at Chichester
towards the end of its long pre-
London tour, my own guess is that
this Hamlet will be considered note¬
worthy lor not displaying all sorts of.
conventionally Hamletic stamps: not
being a juvenile lead in need of

“There is a real bisexuality in Hamlet" says Sir Peter Hall, "and he has not come to terms with it"

counselling; not bang a romantic
hero of potentially tragic stature; not-
being a professional dissembler or
incurable misanthrope.

Whatever else is going on in the
mind of Dfllane’S prince, he seems
above all preoccupied with sexuality,
his own and others*. Hall had seen
Dfflane as Prior Walter in Angels in
America, Tony Kushnerts two-part
“Aids epic” at the Cottesloe, and been
strode by “this extraordinary young
man full of febrile black humour and
an abffity to jump from one subject to

another. It was just what I was
thinking of when the idea of doing
Hamlet again had come into my
head a week earlier.

“An interesting thing that has come
out of the Aids crisis is that we have, I
think, started to evaluate our sexual¬
ity in the most honest terms since
classical times. In die 1960s people
were saying ‘There is such a thing as
homosexuality. Leris recognise it and
talk about it and, if you are honest,
cone out of the closet But which are
you?" Now we are beginning to

understand that “Which are you?* is
not really the question. There is an
acceptance nor only that many more
people are bisexual than has been
admitted in the past, but also that
bisexuality is a perfectly normal
condition. There is a real bisexuality
in Hamlet, and he has not come to
terms with it. To put it crudely, if he
could sleep with his mother he would
be all right. Shakespeare knew about
Freud long before Freud."

However the Dillane marque is
assessed in this time of Hamlets —

Black and white magic

YEVGENY Arye arrived in
Israel from Moscow, with the
nucleus ofwhat was to become
Gesher Theatre; on foe five erf
the Gulf War. and was met at
the airport by men in gas¬
masks. From this inauspicious
beginning Gesher has grown •
to become one of the most
adm ired and popular theatres
in the country, and its arrival
in Manchester launches a
fortnight of Israeli theatre that
will show how vital and
various its companies are.

Gesher is Hebrew fbr
“ bridge", chosen in part
because their early produc¬
tions were played on a bridge
or traverse stage This is not

how they are performing their

adaptation of Dostoevsky’s

mammoth novel, where noth¬
ing remotely like its night¬
mare effects could be achieved
except on a proscenium stage.
Against a slab of white wall,
reversing to show its black
face in the sec¬
ond half, the Th€
characters stand _

in a line, move COl

forward but Man
again spread out
sideways. - like
victims manoeuvring for pos¬
ition in front of a firing squad.

The wall is pierced tty an
asymmetr i c arch and a nar¬
rower opening into which
furniture is abruptly thrust
from the rear. Fierce vertical
lighting outlines the charac¬
ters when.they stand in these

The Idiot
Contact,
Manchester

openings; footlights packed
dose together rake the charac¬
ters in the Pavkrvsk scenes,
where Prince Mishkin basks
uneasily in the sunlight
Hie compression of the sto¬
ry mto less than
rtiaf three hours is so

severe that many
act, nuances of rela-

tionship are sac-
iester rificed. Generals,

daughters, spon¬
gers, drunkards, they reel
before the Prince’s eyes and
ours. AH the males are ob¬
sessed with the beautiful
Nastasia (Natalya Voitule-
vich-Manor). the Prince from
pity, the others out of lust The
remaining women are jealous
of her attractions or shocked

by her sexual abandon, but
there is a strong element of
cartooneiy in the broad and
simple strokes to which their
natures are reduced.

Everyone except Israel
Demidov’s Prince. His author
created him in simple terms,
sweet-tempered, trusting ev¬
eryone, but Demidov's intent
rapt presence proclaims a rich
complexity of character. When
Demidov gazes at Nastasia, or
at Yevgenya Dodina’s love-
struck Aglaya, you feel the
spell his innocence casts. For
images such as this, and the
dream-like chiaroscuro of the
settings. Arye's vision of the
novel will linger in the mind.

Jeremy Kingston

m- r X

'K.mt

Stifyn Parri as Emlyn Williams: warm Welsh, iffy French

In the beginning

THE success story so far.
George, a one-man show with
a Welsh lilt strongly per¬
formed by Stifyn Parri, is a
dramatisation of the actor-
dramatist Emlyn Williams’s
autobiography: Bart One.
George, which was Williams’s
first name, is an account of his
modest beginnings: of his

But seeing just George is
akin to having someone point¬
ing out the rear view of a
celebrity who then fails to turn
round: the piece ends just
where P&rri’s Williams exits to
give his first London perfor¬
mance in 1927.

The writing has consider¬
able merits, itie account of the

scholarship schooldays as the village where Williams thinks
protege of a fearsome, devoted “1 shall never grow up but I

French mistress; and of his
going up to Ox¬
ford. where he Ge

developed a pas¬
sion for the the- Jenny

atre and had a Thoot

gay old 1920s ineai

time, cm and off.

The Two-hour performance
stops short of Williams’s feme,
which really took off when he
trod the boards in Edgar
Wallace's dramas in the early
Thirties, and which doubted
as he authored and appeared
in Night Must Fall. This was
followed in 1938 by his best-
loved play. The Com Is Green
(about a Welsh miner encour¬
aged by a teacher) and, in 1951,
by his world-touring solo im¬
personation of Dickens. This
is the stuff of Part Two.

George
Jermyn Street
Theatre, SW1

shall lie on the grass for ever”
can be like Dylan
-og Thomas toned

down: poetic and
Street comic with local

, ctx/ 1 colour. However.

’ 0 all the detailing

of outstanding
school repons and exam re¬
sults sounds self-regarding.
Barn’s warm Welshness rov¬
ers up some overwritten pas-
rages. but his French accent is
iffy, and the “backstage" set is
shoddy: sightlines are bad. the
light? fluctuate, and the audi¬
torium's temperature rises
high. This recently-opened
theatre has improved since my
first visit yet, like Williams's
story, it is not a total success.

Kate Bassett

Play acting

two more on the way. from Ralph
Fiennes and Simon Ru’sseU-Beale—it
cannot help but be part of that greater
historical consistency, as the work is
freshly informed by its encounters
with diverse epochs. And that of
course is just one more paradox of
Shakespeare's most paradoxical text.
Just as all the great actors have
attempted the role, so Hamlet in his
time has played many parts. For
Garrick, says Hall, he was humor¬
ous. wise and radical; for Kean, “it
must have been as though Berlioz
had been let loose”: Macready’s was
historical, preoccupied with the
forms of early Victorian court life,
and Irving's “pure late Tennyson,
very' slow and very melancholy. You
can hear it on the record."

What of Olivier? A complicated
look passes across Hall's face. It is
almost a “don’t phone us" expression.
“Lany would have killed Claudius
and worried about it afterwards. No,
no. 1 don't think he was a natural
Hamlet. ] never saw him do it on
stage, although i dunk it was a great
film, wonderfully shot But to say
about Hamlet, as Olivier does at the
stan of the film, that this is a story’
about a man who could not make up
his mind, is absolutely not true."

And so to Gielgud, whose name the
former Globe Theatre will carry from
today. It could hardly be more
appropriate that Hall’s Hamlet is the
Gielgud Theatre’s inaugural produc¬
tion, for he was the actor whom Hall,
then aged 1Z first saw in the part, in
the early 1940s in Cambridge. “1 saw
him again a few years later at the
Haymarket. by which time 1 was
more grown-up. or so 1 thought John
was definitely one of the great
romantic Hamlets. He didn't really
make you understand the blackness
and the anarchy of it all. but he did let
you see the sweetness and the
suffering of the character. Looking at
it now. he too was very much the
Hamlet of his time."

Hall Hamlet III — at four hours
the uncunest kind of all — treats it
less as a tragedy than as one of the
problem plays. No sense of catharsis
here; no decorous surgery to have it
end wi an up: only black joke upon
black joke. “I have tried it all ways."
says Hall, “and I don’t believe that
Hamlet returns from England re¬
solved. having heard the sad sweet
music of humanity. I believe he
comes back genuinely mad.

“One of the most exciting aspects of
Hamlet is that it is as contradictory
as life itself. 1 sometimes imagine
what Shakespeare’s contemporary
audiences must have made of it The
whole play inhabits a world of
uncertainties. For me one of the most
exciting things about the way Dillane
approaches it is that he asks question
upon question. He is not seeking the
answers, and still less consistency."

• Hamlet is in preview at the Gielgud
Theatre. Shaftesbury Avenue. London Wl
(U71-#H 5065), and opens cm Friday

AFTER enjoying the four
short Schnitrier plays that
Margarete Forsyth directed
here last winter, 1 ventured to
suggest that she look at Die
grune Kakadu, a play Schnitz-
ler set in a pub theatre, which
of course is what the Green¬
wich Studio is.

Any critic who does this sort
of thing will suffer an attack of
nerves when an artistic direc¬
tor goes ahead
and puts the The 1
play on. since
it could turn Par

out to be one of nrwmxjr

those pieces in- Ljreenw

teresting chief¬
ly to drama critics who want to
complete their Schnitzier set.

To my relief and pleasure
The Green Parakeet is re¬
vealed. in Julian Forsyth's
crisp translation, as a fascinat¬
ing 90-minute play, concerned
with the overlap of pretence
and reality. Schnitzier sets his
story on July 14. 1789, in a
Paris tavern which the land¬
lord. an actor-manager de¬
prived of his theatre, has
converted into a stage where
actors pretend to be cut-

The Green
Parakeet

Greenwich Studio

throats and pimps to divert an
audience of jaded aristos.
Events get out of hand, a real
death occurs, and out in the
streets the mob is storming the
Bastille.

Katherine Richards has

turned the Studio's wide, shal¬
low stage into a wood-panelled
dive, sawdust on the floor,
wine glasses on barrels. Aris¬
tocrats are thinner on the
ground than in
r ptf» n the original but

this is' still a
ieet cast of 17. with

h Qrtiriin no role-dou-

T MUdio bling which k

more than
twice the average turnout on a
fringe stage. Role-doubling
would be impossible without
wrecking the drama, which in
one instance depends on our
not being certain if the report
of a murder is truthful, or yet
another section of entertain¬
ment 1 was entirely fooled fay
Steven Elder’s excellent per¬
formance here — and I trust
that my careful phrasing has
given nothing away.

Jeremy Kingston

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EVERYBODY'S SHAKESPEAflE. The
prfema&oivd iheatre £** ol the momn-
[ong testtval begns nttfi Kann Baers
production at Romeo and Jultol from
Die Ddsseldort Scftau^wtuus
Athtefta cotourtul sagi nB Ixa w ah
cuncus slants al nte/pretanon
Tornghi'a LSO concert, coraftjctcd by
Msteia Roaropwtti. opens the
musical criedrabons. The programme
reMJes BaAJtow's Owture tOng
Lear. Shostakovich's Suite Irom Hamlet
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TODAY'S EVENTS

A dally guide to arts
and entertainment
compiled by Kris Anderson

ELSEWHERE

□ THE EDITING PROCESS C*x?*tog
niflrt for Meredith Oafca's comedy
about the ligti! lor survival r an easy¬
going puMstang house taken over by a
conglomerate Stephen Daldiv direos
Royal Court Staane Square. SW1
(071-730 1745) Tonight. 7pm Then
Mon-Sir. 7.30pm mas Sal. 3.30pm
Until Dec 3

RACING DEMON. Dane] Hare's
compulsive drama ol the Ang&can
Church returns, apam. (or a farther 12
perlormanocs Richard Eyre drecte mth
Otwer Ford Davies
National lOtaeri. South Bank. SE1
(071-9282252) Toraghi-SaL 7 15pm.
mat Sal 2pm Then Nov 17-22.

7 15pm: mars Nov 10 and 22.2pm B

NEWCASTLE. Ngel Hawthorne
directs and stare n The Clandest i ne

Ma rr iag e. David Garnet's spanning

letfvcerfcry comedy. Sian otatxtel lour
prior to a West End run
Theatre Royrf. Grey Street (031-232
2081) Tortght-Sal, 7 JOpm. mats
Thurs. 2pm and SaL 2 30pm. B
Also on offer m Newcastle. the Iasi
week ol Dance Cay's international
fastwai. Hraftfights ncfocta Laurie
Booth and Company's Wbnderiawn, the
return al the popular Bfc* and Steel
with another aaobaac duel and RJC
Dance Theatre’s Shared Testament
Playhouse, Haymartret (091-230

5151) Until SaL Q
POOLE. Cfele Orissa )otns the
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
tonight lor Sdusiiam's Piano
Concerto Ihe programme opens with
Mcctart and ctosesweh Debussy's
haunting La lUer. Malthas Samar
conducts; again innoram in Eiaer.
Wessex Hal. Poole Arts Centre.
Kingland Road (0202 8852221 Tonight.
730pm IS

□ ALICES ADVENTURES UNDER
GROUND Chnaopher Hampton
burrows lot lha subtext io Lewis Carroll,
aided by choidogrepher/direciot Martha
Clarke Said to be insuiaoie lor
children under 12

National. (Cooestoe). Scuih Bank. SE1
(071-928 2252) Now previewing.

7 30pm Opens Nov B. 7pm. ®

□ COME GOOD RAiN. Aswntertng
accounl by George Seremba a
Ugandan dissident rt ihe time ol Oboe
and Amm who survived erecunonareJ
teas (us story lor those who cfcd not
Tricycle. rAxjm High Hoad. NWS
1071-328 1000) Tomghl-Sat. Bpm. mat
SaL 4pm Final week ®

THEATRE GUIDE

Jeremy Kingston's assessment
of theatre showing In London

■ House full, returns only
£ Some seats avertable

□ Seats at Ml prices

□ HAMLET. Peter Han directs Stephen
D&re. Mdhaol Psmrajton and Donald
Stolen ai the renamed Globa Theatre
See (nature, page 35
Gielgud, ShaftasbiryAvsnue. wi
(071-494 50851 Previews lewghi and
tomanow. 7 15pm. Opens Fn. 7pm

□ MOSCOW STATIONS Tom
Courtenay's ore-man performance as
an ateoftotc lost on the Moscow
Underground You probably won't see
finer, more rouchng acting Pits year
Garrick. Charing Cross Road. WC2
(071-4949(65! Mcn-Sar, 8pm.

□ ONCE ON THIS ISLAND

SplenditBy executed production of the ha
Broadway muacal showbeand
Caribbean toik-lale proves u be a
successful mamage: lemhc istand sets
Island flormerty the Royafiyl. Portugal
St. WC2 (071-494 5090) MorvPnSpm:
Sal. 6pm. 8.45pm; mar Wed. 3pm. Q

Shemri cfceds Kay Maser's new play.
Wah Neri Morrissey. James Gaddas and
Aflred Lynch

Comedy. Parson Sheet. SVY11071 -369
17311. Now previewing. 8pm

□ THE PRIME OF KTSS JEAN
BRODIE Patnaa Hodge plays the
mspcrahonal but dangerous
schoolteacher n a revival ol an old
tavounte Alan Strachan (tracts
Strand. Strand. WC2 (071 -930 8800).
Mon-Sai, 7 45pm. mats Thurs and SaL
2.30pm

□ THE SEVEN STREAMS OF THE
RIVER OTA- Robert Lepage's latest
work in progress. Ihe 6rel three parts ol
a young woman's journey through ihe
20ih cenurey. from Prague to
Hroshma SW a w unttotshed at tne
edges but packed with vmd mage iy
Riverside StudkK. Crisp Road, we
(081-741 2255). ToraghlSaL 7 30pm

Fmatweek.iB

□ A PASSIONATE WOMAN

StepharwColeasawoman re-
aasassing her AA manage on ihe
morning ol her son's wedding. Ned

□ THE SISTERS ROSENSWEJG
Greenwich Theaoe's production of
Wendy Waasasrain's too cosy
tears ‘n* laughter drama. Three sisters
(Maneen Upman. Janel Suzman and
Linda Belfin^tam) seek happiness
Old Vie. Waterloo RdSEi (071-928
7616). Mon-Fri. 7.45pm. Sri. 8pm. mats
Wed . 230pro and SaL 4pm

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Satd. unspectacular version ol
Ramgan's play, with Abert Finney as
the classics teacher laong retirement
With Greta Scacch, Matthew Modne
and Johan Sands Diredor, MBre Figgs
MGMs: Fultiam Road Q (071-370
2636) Haymarturt 1071 -83915271
Warner B (071-437 43*3)

CINEMA GUIDE

Geoff Brown's assessment of
Rids In London and (where
indicated with the symbol ♦)
on release across tire country

FEAR OF A BLACK HAT (18)

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wntes. dhads and co-sure
Etoctrtc©l071-792 20201 Metro (071-
437 0757)

L’ENFEH (15). Jealousy rages in a
provincial hotel Uneven tenner Irom
Claude Chabrd. with Emmanuels Bean
and Franqoe Ck£et
Chelsea [071-351 3742) Curzon
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Unwanted, dun wquel lolha baseball
comedy hrt. With Tom Berenger and
Charte Sheen, dlredor. David S Ward
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RAPA NUI (12) Expdc adventure
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wih Jason Soon Lee and Esai Morales.

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MGM Plccnfliy 1071 -437 3561 1
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ol John Gnsham's Ihriler about a boy m
taopwdy. with Susan Sarandcn,

Tommy Lee Jones and Brad Rertra
Dyedor, Joel Schumacher.

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Much hyped bur charmless Ctewy
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turns mild bar* employee mo a
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M 5 Mm Street SW 1 .

NOTTINGHAM Net Bartlett’s eompie*
sogng of WUe's The Ptotura of
Dorian Gray reaches rt» end oi os
lour this month Striking performances
Irom Marta Aitkcn Benedkrt Bales.

Bette Bcume and Tkn F'vaa-Srtntti
Playhouse. Wdlngum Circus (0002
4194191 Mon-5aL 7 30pm: mat Nov IS.
230pm S

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DANCE: DebraCrainereviews English National Ballet’s updated versiCTtrfafegyAigdagjc

'tea

There’s life in the old ghost yet

MGH WYCOMBE: The D'OytyCaria
Opera Company s new HUS RnaKm
more than makes up lor tho disappomt-
mam of a aepressmg D» Ffeaermaus.
Strongly cast sets boautlluty designed
as 1930s poser-tty's (tars, and all m art
very efegam and witty
Wycombe Swan. St Mary Street (0494
5120001 Today. 2-30 end 730pm Urtrl
Sal S

LONDON GALLERIt

Barbican A attar Truth: Ava«-Garde
Art and the Great War (071-8384141)
British Museum. Pmisolthe
Bartwron School (071-636 1555) - -
Hayward The Romantic Spun m
German Art J79CMB90 (071-9283144)
National PoctraR Gallery: The SrtweVs
(071-306 00561.. National GeOary.
The Young Mctwfangeio (071-839
33211. Royal Academy The Glory of
Venice: the Panted Page (071-439
7438) Serpentine. Rebecca Horn
(071-102 6075).. Tata, wrestler.

Gore Gallery 1071 -887 8000). VS, A
halighai Indian Popular PatrJmg 1800-
1930(071-938 9500) .. Whltachapal
Miquri Barceic I0T1 -522 7888)

I t may be the jewel in the
Romantic crown, but Giselle is
far from sacred. Other contempo¬
rary choreographers have dared
to tinker with its ISO-year-old trappings
before now. Dance Theatre of Harlem
famously set its ah-black Giselle in the
Creole society of pre-Civh War Louisi¬
ana: Mats Ek sent his mentally
disturbed heroine to a lunatic asylum.

Giselle

Palace Theatre,
Manchester

Q THREE TALL WOMEN Maggie
SiTrtti Frances de la Tour and Anastasia
HiDa play ihe women who hauraad the
childhood of Edward Abee Hb PuHzar
Prcewmer. directed tw Anthony Pago
Wyndham's. Charing Cross Rd. WC2
(071 -369 1738). Now previewing. 8pm

□ WHAT A PERFORMANCE Daw*
Suchot shows off wb« as he mugs and
((ounces as S*d Fiek3 in IVBfcrm
Humble's stage Laography
Quean's. Shaftesbury Arenue. WI
(071-494 5041) Mon-Sal. 7 45pm. mas
Wed and Sal. 3pm

LONG RUNNERS

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For English National Ballet's new
production, artistic director Derek
Deane and his designer Charles
Cusick-Smith have set the work in
1920s Austria.

The medieval Rhineland village of
traditional stagings here becomes a
luxury 20th-century hotel resort nestled
among the snowy Austrian peaks.
Giselle is a chambermaid, her mother
is the housekeeper and Count Albrecht
and his friends from court have
retreated to the mountains to indulge
in a little hunting and skiing.

With this as its starting point, the
narrative has no trouble following its
original course. The divisions of class
so vital to the storyline are effectively
maintained in the updated love affair
between Albrecht and Giselle; even
Albrecht's arrival in a grey vintage
Rolls-Royce (in the boot of which is
hidden his damning ceremonial
sword) fails to jar.

In fact, what is surprising is just how
conventional this Giselle feels. Deane
has not interfered with the ballet's
spirit, or even with the accepted
Coral li/Perrot choreography, for that
matter. His stage directions do indeed

• ! ..« »’
i I' .
j \. f

Twenties spirits: Agnes Oaks and Thomas Edur as Giselle and Albrecht in Derek Deane’s new production

heighten the drama, and having the
pas de six danced by maids and
bellhops adds a perfect touch.

For his part. Cusick-Smith under¬
stands that his brief as designer is to
enhance the action, not dominate it as
is the fashion these days. His Giselle is
extremely tasteful and well-propor¬
tioned. the colours warm yet subtle, the
costumes elegant and flattering.

A timbered ski lodge, somewhere
between a gingerbread house and an
elaborate cuckoo dock, is the jolly focal
point for the naturalistic first half; a

Gothic horror forest, with gnarled tree-
trunks and branches like living tenta¬
cles. provides a spooky backdrop to Act
Ills supernatural grave scene. The
Wilis, with their whitened feces and
black sunken eyes, are more Bride of
Dracula than poetic avengers.

Monday's opening-night cast did
ENB proud, despite an under-powered
reading of the Adam score by Carl
Davis in the piL Agnes Oaks and
Thomas Edur are both ideally suited to
the leading roles, both beautifully
schooled in the nuances of the soft

Romantic style. A noble Edur struck
the right balarioe between ardent kwer
and arrogant playboy; the reafisatien
that his deception (he is betrothed to
another) has cost Giselle her life is
encapsulated in a single striking
moment. Perhaps in the belief that afi
great GiseHes are brunettes; Oaks has
dyed her blonde , hair, a good-hide
charm that seemed to spur her on to a
breathtaking performance, especially
in die second act when her radiant,
voluptuous ethereality wafted across
the stage like an dusive dood ■■

LONDON CONCERTS: Revelatory Beethoven; and a Russian singer in superlative form

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CONTINUING his cyde of
Beethoven symphonies with
the Second and Seventh on
Monday. Nikolaus Harnon¬
court drew electrifying perfor¬
mances from the Phil-
harmonia that exhilarated the
players no less than the audi¬
ence. Harnoncourt’s highly
personal conducting style was
evident from the opening bars
of the Second. Fixing his
players with a demonic stare,
he launched into the first
chords with a sudden physical
jerk that suggested he might
have been struck by lightning.
Certainly it galvanised this
orchestra into playing Beet¬
hoven as they play him for no
other conductor.

To begin with, the sound

Like no other conductor

produced from their modem
instruments approaches what
might be expected from a
period band; the strings are
lean and sparing with vibrato
(the long sustained As in the
Trio of the Seventh were
positively eerie), the winds
clean and sharply etched
(wonderfully rasping bas¬
soons and horns at the start of
the Seventh's finale), the whole
invigoratingly alive.

Harnoncourt's idiosyncra¬
sies. often remarked upon,
usually adversely, seemed al¬
most entirely positive charac¬
teristics in these per-

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Festival Hall

formanoes. The extremity of
file dynamic contrasts, for
example, raised a few eye¬
brows. but they invariably
convinced because they mere¬
ly highlighted the volatility of
die composer's moods. Nor. at
least to ears attuned to die
speedy tempi of die present
generation (Norrington. Gar¬
diner). did there seem any¬

thing exceptional in that
department

There were, however, two
movements (the Second's
Scherzo and Finale) where the
players, for all their valiant
efforts, could not quite realise
Harnoncourt’s intentions.
That both movements seemed
a bit of a scramble was not
due, I think, to insufficient
rehearsal; indeed, there was
plenty of evidence of careful
preparation. Rather, it seemed
due to die problem of'articu¬
lating at speed in historical
style on modern instruments.
The other miscalculation was

Harnoncourt's failure to tame
the two trumpets, who for
large sections of the Seventh
drew distracting and almost
comic attention to the two or
three rates Beethoven gives
them to play. '

These were the only Mots an
performances as revealing as
they were thrilling. Hainan- .
oaarrs decision to work with a j
mainstream symphony or¬
chestra is fraying handsome
dividends in this cyde (which
continues next Monday with
the Fourth and Fifth). For
players - and patrons alike,
things may never be quite the
same again.-

Barry

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A RUSSIAN friend who accompanied
me to Prince Igor at Covent Garden
and Eugene Onegin at Glyndeboume
found the language of the non-native
singers so garbled it was barely
comprehensible. If this is the case with
some of the best coaching and the best
will in the world, what hope for
Russian song in the recital room? Add
to that a still ubiquitous musical
Austro-German hegemony, and it is no
wonder that a full evening of Tchaikov¬
sky songs, such as Olga Borodina gave
us last week, is a rare treat indeed.

Borodina is a leading young mem¬
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in St Petersburg, whose London con¬
cert series, devised by Valery Gergiev.
wnl continue to open British ears and

Rising star of the east

give Russian art- Olca E

ists plentiful expo- . 6

sure here until next Wlgmore 1

June. To'listen to -

her impeccably schooled mezzo-sopra¬
no is like watching a painter with the
finest sable brushes.

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the very first brush stroke. “My
Guiding Spirit", written by the 14-year-
old Tchaikovsty, was by no means
warming up material: the "immaterial
shade” was present in imagination and
half-voice from the first intake of
breath. The pianist, Semion Skigin,

Olga Borodina

Wigmore Hali/Radio 3

rodina conjured a tempest

j- ^ of an introduction

ill/Radio 3 for tite deceptively

- : - named “Reconcili¬
ation''. Both he and Borodina knew
that Tchaikovsky was hearing the
unresolved flux of emotions beneath
the reassurances of the poem, and It
was thrilling to hear Borodina’s voice
tracking them in the song's storm of
dynamic and tempo changes.

There are times when Borodina’s
assurance tempts her to glide luxuri¬
antly on the flood tide of her own vocal
skills. This can blunt the edge of pain

in a scrag such as “None But The
Lonely Heart”: the waif-like character
of Goethe'S poem became more of a
world-weary sophisticate. Similarly,
Borodina tended to warm herself
overlong in the piano's sunlight for
“The First Meeting”, when the vocal
writing implies fiercer ardour.

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so much that one expects so much. She
is. after alL not yet 30. Her last three
songs, written by Tchaikovsky at the
same time as the Sixth Symphony,
confirmed her stature as a musician:
“Again, As Before, I Am Alone" was
sung as if from outside the body. and.
ended with the same numb shudder.'

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Hr-—~^ £ es ^ pop's most shrinking violet Carly Simon is, she
says, finally letting it all hang out. Alan Jackson finds out why

?riy Sanaa, pop goddess,
§j ;isa concept thafhas been
.: \_- • promoted down the years
• 1 T~ < , W. a^playful series of
. album steeves featuring the Simon
«gs. Bps, hair and d&olletage.
'2^^ ^ photographer's studio
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flfcfar the rock’nfhffl lifestyle.

•" .;Thwe haw . been 1 occasional
. ■ tepsesmtofhe spotlight - -You're
* , vam", her br^sthit. certainly
- “** the curkais guessing. Was
'Mtcfc Jagger (who sang back-up
vocals on it) the egotistical lover
&&fressed. within its enigmatic
lyro. <ft Warren Beatty? And a first
marriage to fellow singer-songwrit¬
er James Taylor set flashbulbs
exploding back in the. days when ■
liberal politics and acoustic guitars
were thought-sexy-fey American
taste-makers. Bat those apart, she
has lived a. particularly private
kind of public life.

Records have been released,
some of them selling spectacularly
well, others not so well a long¬
standing problem with stagefright
has mainly kept her out of concert
halls, while an assiduous commit¬
ment to a number of noble social
causes — including the American
Red Cross, the Association to
Benefit Children^ with Aids, and
Mothers Against i)nnik Driving—
has kept her in the society columns
and the offices erf -politicians and
public officials.

And, with the raising of her
children Sally, 20, and 3gn, 17.
taking precedence over everything."
it has bear easy to forget exactly
what it was fiat first marie her
famous.

What male her famous are a
beautifully meflow afro vane and a
sharply observant writing -style,
both well to the tore on Letters
Never Sent . released next Monday
and her first recorded work in four
years. For Simon, now 49, it is a
triumph, being less shaped' by .
V commercial constraints than any-
^ thing else in her recent career.

There is not even a siienposeon
the sleeve. “I see those oidcovers in,
the most positive, light,” she says,
'tall, calm and elegant amid the
friendly dntter of fier Manhattan;
apartment “I^e alw^ enjpycd .
playing with my image, d ress in g ;
up fin way achxSdwtrald m her

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mothers high heels and an old fox
fur. There’s an erotic element, but
. . it's no t important It's me playing in
from of a camera, pretending to be
something I’m not"

However, not even photogenic
looks can protect an artist from
^career troughs. Simon's nadir came
m 1985, when yuppie values and
electro-pop were prevalent and her
longtime contract with Elektra
ended. That year she released the
somewhat setf-destructively titled
Spoiled Girl for Epic, her rally
album not to chart in America. She

CI*m going to
make myself walk
out on to those
stages. If I faint or
throw up or even
die, then so be it 5

was unceremoniously dropped by
that label also as a result, and her
then manager Tommy Mottola —
now president of Sony Music and
husband of Mariah Carey — laid it
rai the line. “He said that no one
else would take me other than Ctive
Davis at Arista, and that even then
it would have to be for no money
upfront and with the proviso that
CGve had total control over the
material I recorded. But finding my
. options so reduced made me act out

“There I was, close to 40 and with .
a lot of my old songs still on file
radio and yet — according to my
manager — with no one wanting
me. I thought it was the end. that I
could easily go the way ofX Y and
Z and never be heard of again. I
didn't want to be without a record
deal, but my only way forward was
with a man who once said that I
was a singer, not a writer, and
should rally be doing other people’s
songs. Because I was in a corner
though, I agreed, I signed."

• As a result and despite being
reduced to tears “many, many
times” fry the' autocratic Davis,
mastermind behind Ihe launch of

Whitney Houston and the renais¬
sance in fortunes of both Aretha
Franklin and Dionne Warwick —
she found herself back on the world
charts the following year.

The recording of Coming
Around Again was a fraught
business, with Simon and her new
boss repeatedly locking horns in
the studio. “Largely because he
made me record this Bryan Adams
song, and worse still brought him
along to tell me how to phrase it
Now obviously that was embar¬
rassing far Bryan, but it was just a
tremendously demeaning experi¬
ence for me. one of the low points of
my artistic, life."

Her revenge was the album's hit
title track, the theme to the Nora
Ephrom film Heartburn and ar¬
chetypal Simon — a tale of grown¬
up angst that was subtle, seductive
and. most satisfying of all, self-
written. "There's still a lot of
struggle, but also much that’s
positive,” she says now of her
relationship with Davis. “1 think he
now respects who I am and is no
longer trying to shape me into
someone else."

The time at Arista has been
punctuated by her Oscar-winning
soundtrack to a second Ephrom
film. Working Girl, pins a collec¬
tion of standards. On Letters Never
Sent, though, she returns to her
natural territory of sophisticated
folk-pop with a loosely conceptual
set that deals with key relationships
in her past Various famous friends
happened by the studio to help in
its making, among them Rosanne
Cash. Taj Mahal. Marc Cohn and
Dave Stewart Meanwhile, the
appearance of son Ben on “Time
Works On All The Wild Young
Men" is likely to have label bosses
everywhere reaching for then-
chequebooks — his voice is pure,
strong and resonant a carbon copy
of that of his father, the one-time
sweet baby James.

“It’s very hard to be bumble and
proud at the same time, but I’m
trying,” she says of the record. “Yes.

I think its the best one I’ve ever
made, but also yes. Pm scared
about how It’S going to be received."

Still, recent events in her life have
made her determined no longer to
be circumscribed by fear. During
the album’s recording and within

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With a new album out next week, and her life looking good. Carly Simon is ready to tackle the big one — performing in public

the space of a few weeks, there
occurred the deaths of both her
mother Andrea, with whom she
had a protractedly difficult rela¬
tionship. and of her dose friend
Jacqueline Onassis. Letters Never
Sent is dedicated to the two women
and contains songs written directly
for each, and out of respect for them

she has resolved to overcome her
stagefright and promote it with her
first concert tour in almost 20 years.

“It's not because I've conquered
that fear, but in spile of it." she
says. “If 1 faint or throw up or even
die. then so be it. But as this is the
most personal of a sea of personal
albums fVe made hit going ro

honour the fact by making myself
walk our on to those stages and let it
all hang out, just as 1 did on the
record itself.”

The decision comes at a good
time for Simon, professionally,
personally and even politically. She
has married again, but maintains a
separate New York address to

advertising industry executive and
aspiring novelist Jim Han. .And
among the summer guests at her
second home on Martha’s Vine¬
yard. Massachusetts, were Bill and
Hillary Clinton. “Would J say I’m
happy in my life? I think the answer
would have to be yes."

• Letters Ne' er Sent is an Arisra

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T he irony of it is fiat BiB
Prised was once an un-
comprtxmsing purist
Twenty or rnffl-e years aga at a
time when rock rhythms
threatened to smother the life
out of jazz, the young Frisell
tunned his back on anything
more contemporary than bop.
Today, acknowledged as one
of the most distinctive of
modem guitarists, betakes his
inspiration hum all manner of
sources: Prince rubs shoulders
with Charles Ives, John
COltrane with Prince. =

Now comes the turn of an
even more unlikefy figure —'
Buster Keaton, whose films
form the backdrop to Frisell’s
new album Go Wes t Th e
combination of ambient guitar
and slapstick comedy can be
eqjerienced at the Queen Eliz¬
abeth Hafi tonight, when
FrisdPs trio — with Kenmt
Driscoll cm bass and Joey
. Baron on drums — plays

music io accompany the
screening of four Keaton films:
Go West, Sherlock Jr. The
High Sign and One Week.
Hie soundtrack album is is¬
sued by Elektra Nonesuch on
November 28.

Given FrisdPs long associ¬
ation with saxophonist John
Zotjl the downtown anarchist
aim post-modernist who
specialises in jagged, cut-and-
paste tributes to the likes of
Mickey Spiflaneand spaghetti
western composer Enruo
Morricone. this latest venture

shraiMndcoire as a complete

sunwise. The idea first took
shape last year when a Brook¬
lyn arts centre approached
Frisell with die idea of provid¬
ing musk for a screening of
Keaton films- His treatment
was received so favourably
drat he was fowle d back m
February for a performance o!
three more shorts.

As he explains, the business
of writing for rinema was
something of a hit-andrtruss
a&in-It was a longpitjcess -1
didn't knew’ whichi films to do
at first, sol got bold of a 101 ^

Keaton enters
the jazz age

Bill Frisell tells Clive Davis about
his most unusual gig—adding hot
licks to classic silent comedies

Guitarist BUI Frisell cranes face to poster with Buster Keaton

videos. After watching tiim. a
few ideas began to surface,
then l let go of them and wrote
a lot of music without even
thinking about the films. Then
I went back to the films,
watched them with all -this
differ ent music in front of me.
and placed the melodies with
different sections."

Although fiie initial struc¬
ture may have been haphaz¬
ard, Frisell was adamant
about one th ing; be had to
break away from the conven¬
tions of sfieot movie piano

accompaniment When be
watched the films he made a
point of switching off. the
volume in order to concentrate
entirely on the images an the

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cial, <his densely textured,
slow-motion improvisation
complements Keaton's bitter¬
sweet mood.

The QEH concert is part of a
European tour. “Europe is
where I find my prime audi¬
ence — I don’t know what I’d
do without that," he says.
“Part of it. I think, is the
general level of awareness of
the public there: they’re not yet
as conditioned to watching
MTV all the time."

It was Manfred Eichert
label ECM — home to Keith
Jarrett and Jan Garbarek —
that gave Frisell his first real
opportunity for self-expres¬
sion, track in the early 1960s.

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Frisell worked as a sideman
for the company’s leading
artists, and eventually made a
number of albums under his
own name [Lookout for Hope
was a particular critical fa¬
vourite). As far Frisell*s eclectic
tastes, those were partly a
throwback to his years ai a
racially integrated high school
in Colorado, where he and his
friends listened to the full
spectrum of R&B and pop.
After his brief phase of jazz
purism he threw himself tack
into the maelstrom in the early
1970s. rediscovering his affini¬
ty with Jimi Hendrix.

With so many styles — from
country to free jazz — ai his
disposal, and with his tenden¬
cy to introspection, Frisell is
often described as “a techni¬
cian". The truth, he says, is
that his spate, elliptical deliv¬
ery developed as a response to
what he regarded as his own
lack of technique. Years ago.
listening to the ostentatious
virtuoso solos of John
Mctaughlin, he was op¬
pressed by a sense of his own
inadequacy.

"After some time I tried to
imply what I couldn't do
physically on the instrument,
buirtead of playing 25 notes I'd
make a gesture of playing five.
If I look back on my favourite
musicians, they're all individ¬
uals who built around some¬
thing that they didnt have.

"ive heard the stories about
how Mfles, when he was
young, tried to play like Dizzy.
But if he could have played
like that we might not have
had a Miles at all."

• Queen Elizabeth Hall. South
Bank, SE1 (071428 8800} tonight.
7J0pm

POPULAR MUSIC: Harry Connick Jr throws his image out the window

Play that funky music, white boy

WHEN he first burst, apparently fully
formed, upon the music scene in nis late
teens, Harry Connick Jr attracted slightly
grudging praise from the jazz press. : The
Boy Wonder from New Orleans" was.
most observers agreed, phenomenally
talented: he could play the piano like
Errall Gamer, with a dash of Thelonious
Monk and Professor Longhair: he could
sing like Frank Sinatra.- he was charis¬
matic, serious and knowledgeable about
the music. He was also charming, goal-
looking and modest. If. by possessing
these advantages, he had deprived more
deserving souls of them, he could not have
attracted more suspicion.

Not that this bothered his fans, who
flocked to his concerts, marvelled at his
pianistic talent, and swooned at his
crooning. Soon, even the jazz press was
won over by his stunning Big Band
concerts, and had to admit that he was
that rare phenomenon: a true jazz talent
who was also a natural entertainer with
mass appeal.

On his latest British tour, however, now’
coming to a climax in three Albert Hall
concerts, there are definite signs that
sections of Connick’s audience are less
than happy with his latest metamorpho¬
sis. One disgrunted punter put if succinct¬
ly: she had come to see Sinatra, she said,
and had been given Motorhead.

Certainly, anyone hoping for a brisk
trot through Connick’s When Harry Met
Sally routine would have been surprised
— even outraged — at his urging them at
the concert’s outset to “check out some
funky music from the Crescent City", and
by the relentless power and volume of
what followed.

But those who had listened to. and
appreciated, his latest album. She — the

MARTIN BEDOALL

If only Sinatra could see him now: Harry Connick Jr gets down and dirty

Harry Connick Jr
Albert Hall

majority, that is — stayed and exhibited
ail the signs of a rock audience enjoying
itself: they clapped on the beat, e mi ted the
occasion whoop, boogied in the boxes and
complained about the price of the souve¬
nir programmes.

Listened to dispassionately, though,
Connick’s latest offering, and its live
performance, is merely another manifes¬
tation of his deep and sincere interest in
all aspects of New Orleans music, which
now embraces everything from the most
traditional jazz through barrelhouse
piano to the must eclectic funk and rock.

The jazt was represented not only in a
. yearning version of “St James Infirmary - ,
where Connick was joined by the sure¬
footed muted trumpet of Leroy Jones and
the hauntingly lovely trombone of Lucien
Barbarin, but also by a grand-standing
solo piano version of “Sweet Georgia
Brown".

The funk, admittedly, did dominate the
proceedings, but if it was less than wholly
successful the acoustics of the Albert Hall
— never overly hospitable to amplified
sound — must tare the blame, and not the
slick, tight band

Connick, meanwhile, is merely trans¬
forming himself from Boy Wander io
Man of Many Parts.

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In class: young people study building plans during a ten-week course in carpentry and bricklaying. Those who go on to work on a self-build housing'project receive £10 a week on top of state benefit

M ore than 25,000
peopteayeararenqw
said to build their
own homes, an indi¬
cation of how the self-build band¬
wagon is rolling on.

In the past it was usually only the
rich who could a&rd the luxury of
designing their own home and
paying a builder to build it for
theuL Groups of tradesmen would
also get together to buikl tbeir own
homes and save labour costs.'

Today, however, self-building
need not be the dream only of the
Dry handyman and well off.
According to the Children’s Society,
“Young people in housing need
should be given more support in
budding their own homes ."

Community self-build is differ¬
ent It offers the chance to groups of
people to come togetherwith finan- *
dal and professional support to
design and build their own homes
in their own community, while
receiving training.

Now, the Community Self-Build
Agency (071-415 7092) has been set
up to offer information and advice.
Christine Holman, co- author of the
recently published Making Com¬
munity Self-BaUd Happen, says:
“Since 1986, in the North of Eng¬
land alone, at feast 24 groups have
come together to give people the
chance to bufld thar own horned
The first scheme, five years ago,
l was undertaken by a group of 12
unemployed Afro-Caribbean
young men who buih a block of
flats for their own occupation. By
the timethe project was finished.

a home and a future

: all but one was working fuB-time.
.. Another scheme is in Maltby,
South Yorkshire, co-ordinated by
:the Children's Society. Nine young
people, seven men and two women,
between the ages of 19 and 30.
started building their homes in
August and when they have fin¬
ished, they will be able to rent the
homes with a secure tenancy. If
they decide in the future to move
cat, they will be paid a lump sum
for their hard labour.

The Maltby Rainbow Youth Self-
Build Project was aimed at unem¬
ployed men and women with
housing problems — overcrowd¬
ing, not getting on with family or a
short-term tenancy. Initially.
received interest only from young
men, so it had to be readvertised,
specifically targeting women.

The chosen group is building a
terrace of five two-bedroom houses
and four ome-bedders an an infill
site at an existing housing estate in
' Maltby. a mining town with high
unemployment.

Designed to fit in with the
existing terraces, the houses wifi
have higher standards, with great¬
er energy efficiency and modem
appliances.

The scheme is funded by the
Yorkshire Metropolitan Housing
Association, which has raised half
the money from its own tanks and
half from the Housing Cor¬
poration. It secured the land and
planning permission before look¬
ing for the candidates.

The young selfbuilders have
been given a ten-week training

course in brickwork and joinery
and while they build receive £10 a
week on top of state benefit It is
hoped that by the time they have
finished the project in 18 months’
time, they will each pass NVQ
Level 2 in their chosen skill.

Other funding has come through
sponsorship from suppliers. The
Yorkshire Metropolitan Housing
Association will recoup its mort¬
gage payments through the rents
paid.

JUSTIN SLEE

D ave Rawnsley. a dev¬
elopment manager for
the project, is happy to
do more than simply
help people in housing need. “The
project means that we can. pur
something broader back into the
community than just bricks and
mortar.” he says.

“It is a lot harder to do it this way
than by using a general building
contractor, but we get more out of it
because we are giving young
people a chance to have satisfaction
in what they are doing and to
improve their skills. If the right
opportunity were presented to us
again, we would be more titan
happy to back a similar project"
Lucy Nelson, the architect and
co-ordinator of the project says:
“The nine young builders are doing
everything except the electrics,
which we will contract out I have
an enormous amount of confidence
in them. There is a lot of learning to
be done — not only in their job
skills, but in working with others,
learning to organise themselves

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On site two girls learn the humble but important job ofFe^dmg the voracious cement-mixer

and getting used to being in a
situation where they have control
over what happens.

“Once the project is finished, we
hope they will be able to get jobs,
but not necessarily in the building
trade. This experience should be a
springboard to what they want to
do. a confidence-building exercise."

Nathan Tumer-Scort.' who is 19

years old. is one of the nine
participants. “I got involved
because I needed somewhere to
live.” he says. “I had been staying
at my girlfriend’s house for 18
months. I am a joiner by trade but I
was unemployed for six months
and I chose to train under the
scheme to be a brickie.' so 1 would
have two strings to my bow. 1 am

really enjoying it Everybody gets
on tremendously.

“Not coming from Maltby — I
five nearby in Dinnington — I
didn’t know anyone before. So it
has given me a chance to make new
friends, too. 1 am looking forward
to living in a house I have built, and
it will be like our own little
community."

Lettings

market

rockets

Foreigners and
property shortage
boost city rents

THE LETTINGS market in
London is suffering from the same
problem as the housing market a
shortage of good property. De¬
mand for top-quality property
outstrips supply and rental
charges are rising by up to 20 per
cent a year in some parts of
Mayfair and only slightly less in
Chelsea, says Knight, Frank &
Riitley.

The agent says that a growing
demand is coming from people
arriving in Britain from other
European countries, America and
die Middle East and forecasts an
Indian summer for landlords as
the number of properties to rent
has fallen by 35 percent in the past
quarter.

The biggest shortage is in four-
and five-bedroom houses and flats.
In Mayfair, the number of top
quality two-bedroom fiats at rents
of between £400 and £600 a week
is down by 30 per cent

Robert Orr-Ewing. the head of
Knight. Frank & Rutley*s lettings
department in Chelsea. says:
“There was a glut of rental proper¬
ty during the height of the reces¬
sion as both developers and
owners of individual properties
decided to rent rather than seD at a
low price. As the market has
picked up in the past year, more
and more of these properties have
been sold, and there has been in¬
sufficient quality property to re¬
place them.”

Other agents tell the same story.
Savills says it has a high demand
for properties to let from com¬
panies and foreign banks. Strutt &
Parker says that demand is greater
than supply for most types of
property.

Beauchamp Estates adds that it
has had many inquiries from
Russians — on top of its usual
international clients — looking for
a London base while they set up
businesses.

Serena Brown, manager of
Winkworth Central Lettings, says:
“Applicants are for more flexible
than • they once were." Now
Hammersmith. Notting Hill. Is¬
lington and Fulham, all with good
Tube links, are becoming more
popular.

Jon MacGowan

Just pack a toothbrush

Builders are

copying an

American idea of

selling houses

fully furnished

T he American idea of
selling homes ready fur¬
nished is bang em¬
braced by same British
builders as a value-added
sales incentive: Since July.
David McLean Homes of Flint
in Nor* Wales has been
piloting die idea at four of its
sites in Soutii Wales and the
Sou* West to test buyer

response. The scheme worked

so well that the company plans
to extend the scheme to all 20
of its sixes.

Alan Uewtflin. the sales
manager, says: “It started
helping sales in the first two

weeks that we used iL It wont
appeal to everyone fort it helps

people who have a deposit but
no furniture for a property. Be-
cause the furniture is included,
it goes on the mortgage, which
means that you can move in
without the hassle of buying
these things.

“In America, sdhng bouses
is a different concept People
buy the whole packa ge: a
house is furnished from top to
bottom and you just walk in.
You buy lots of land, ask a
builder to build what you want
and die furniture comes with,
it We’re doing it as a helping
hand to first-rime buyers.”

Customers can choose the
odours of carpets, curtains
and a three-piece suite from
two ranges, one for a two-
bedroom house and one for a
three^^edrocsn version, selling
for between £ 50,000 and
£60000- They get a dining

PROPERTY

McLean Homes is offering furnished new homes such as this showhouse

table, and four chairs, a cock¬
tail cabinet and display cabi¬
net, a nest of tables, a coffee
table, beds and wardrobes,
bedside cabinets and a chest of
drawers which come in a
choice of grey or white ash.

Shirley Clarice, a sales exec¬
utive. has bon observing the
scheme at the company's site
at Fontydun, Mid-Glamor¬
gan. "ITS ideal for someone
who’s getting divorced." she
says. TVe just sold one house
to a man who has sold his
house fully furnished to some¬
one who wants to let il“

The package is organised
for the company by Allied
Contracts, which provides a
similar service for other build¬
ers, inducting Stamford
Homes, Bearer (Yorkshire).
Falcon Homes, arid Bailey

Homes. Barratt offers a simi¬
lar scheme in Sou* Wales and
is thinking of introducing a
starter package as an optional
extra at its Waters Edge
development of 96 one and two
bed apartments on the River
Avon in Bristol dty centre.

Barratt’s supplier is High
Quality Contracts of Weth¬
er by, Yorkshire, founded 12
years ago by John Yates who
brought the idea back from the
United States.

The company sells direct to
builders such as George
Wimpey, Persimmon Homes
and WO son Homes, some¬
times supplying only carpets
and curtains.

Trevor' Chariesworth. foe
sales director, says: "We began
by doing a first-time buyer's
package, but last year we

started providing a £2500 co¬
ordinated designer package of
carpets, curtains, furniture
and kitchenware so you could
move in with just a tooth¬
brush.

“We are bulk-buying to try
to keep prices low. We sub¬
contract local carpet and cur¬
tain fitters throughout the
country and deliver to them.
The furniture arrives at the
house the following day so it
can be put in position.

“We’re looking to American
ideas because this country
always follows what they' do.
even if it is a few years’ behind
them. The idea is growing
because it’s a good incentive
for builders to use without
paying a fortune."

Christine Webb

[action in council
; foils for foou-
ids of people with
tidential and bus-
uises could be on
after a landmark
; Salvation Array
essfillly appealed

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A case could mean savings for
people in mixed-use premises

si uw

F a oretakert flat in its
iarey offices in Queen
riaStitet. central Lon-

"veyorsaigred that the
s would be worth foe

same with of without the flat
which could be readied only
ihibuggi the business part of
the property. Because the fiat
was-worthless, they suggest¬
ed a. nominal vahition of
£35.000 for the flat which
ptnitrn band A rather titan
band G. reducing the council
tax bill from £690 to £275 a

year. The case has implica¬
tions for pub-owners, form¬
ers. people living in
residential public schools
and others with mired resi¬
dential and business prem¬
ises where the living
quarters can be reached only
via the business part of the
property.

Charles Partridge, of Her¬
ring Baker Harris, which
represented the Salvation
Array, says the case means
that other people can appeal
against thar banding.

The opportunities for cut¬
ting tax bills would be great¬
est in areas where residential
prices are high and where
foe property had therefore
been put in a high tax
banding.

Rachel Kelly

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We area fast expanding organisation operating at the sharp end of the country's
most acute social problems and are looking for a versatile and dedicated pmon
to provide com pr ehensive support for our Chief Executive and secretarial
support for our Chair.

You will provide a full and efficient secretarial service as well as repr e s e nting
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You will, obviously, need the highest level secretarial/ WP skills but equally
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You will be located at our Head Office at Aklgate but will be involved in some
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For full details and an application form please contact Personnel Department,
Turning Po in t . New Loom House, 101 Bade Church Lane; London El 1LU.

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Your day will be full and demanding. We expect you to have
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We offer a goo) package competitive salary, contributory
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Closing Date; 7 November 1994 NoAowces

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THE COIN STREET GROUP

b a comreaffity develop merit tract nrapomifafa for devefopmg and
managing a a%mfieaat part of Loadw's Soadi Bank

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We require an experie nced PA/S ecretary to work for our Group Director
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secretarial/ personnel work and general office manage me nt / staff
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be computer litera t e, wefl organised and be ane to deal with people at all
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Closing data: Friday 19 November 1994.

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Benefits reflect the importance of this
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to 11.5% of salary.

We're looking for someone exceptional
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(including a day time contact number)
should be sent to Carole Wood, Personnel
Department, The Audit Commission,
Nicholson House, Lime Kiln Close, Stoke
Gifford, Bristol BS12 6SU. Closing date:
Friday 11th November 1994.

A non smoking office. No agencies.
Wc arc an equal opportunities employer.

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OUR CLIENT IS A 350 STRONG CITY LAW FIRM WHICH IS REGARDED HIGHLY BY
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LEGAL SECRETARIES

CITY £16,000 - £19,000

USE YOUR LEGAL, CITY OR COMMERCIAL
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Senior Banking Partner's Secretary: You should have previous Corporate Finance experience
which will have been gained m a City Law firm or a large Commercial Bank. (Ref: SBP1/TT)

Senior Litigation Partner's Secretary; Here you wifl need to have had previous Litigation
experience which will have been gained in a large City firm. This appointment will also have a
sizeable administrative rote.(Ref: SLP2/TT)

Secretary to Senior Assistant Solicitor and Assistant Solicitor; Candidates will need either
Commercial or Litigation experience and a certain amount of the workload will be dealing with
Banning and environmental issues. (Ret: SAS3/TT)

Secretary to A ssis t a nt Solicitor - Employment Law; For this position you must have a high
tolerance for WP work, however the nature of the work can be very absorbing. Legal experience is
not necessary although it would be an advantage. (Ref: ASEL4/TT)

Departmental Secretary; this role wiD involve predominately WP work within the Commercial
department This is a very team orientated department, and legal experience is not essentiaL
(Ref: DS5m)

For ail these positions a flexible approach towards hours is essential, and all applicants must have
MS Word for Windows experience. A very generous package is offered, and the benefits include
PRP, Contributory Pension (after qualifying period), overtime, private health insurance, subsidised
gym membership and 20 days holiday. Applications in strict confidence including your CV and
stating current salary level, quoting tile appropriate reference, will be forwarded to our
client unless you fist companies to which they should not be sent In a covering letter
marked for the attention of the Security Manager, CJRA

PA to Chief Executive

c£18,500 plus Performance Bonus and Capital Card
Based London SWI

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'V. most progressive record companies. We're involved
in a wide range of activities within the muse and
entert ainm ent industry, and there are Sony Music
•jr Entertainment affSiates in over 70 dfiferent tountries
around the world; The UK and European offices are
f *4 based in the West End. and incor po r a te our three
major record labels and relevant support functions. _
*'■< We're' looking for professional, dffigent and

motivated individuals who are. in turn, looking for a
new challenge - these are the pick of the pops: .

Senior Secretary

- Corporate Audit

; Supporting this rapidly expantfing department,'

;r~ you will be involved In ensuring the smooth running
: J of the office. You must have excellent computer skills

and enjoy woridng independently.

A Personal Assistant to Vice President

Finance

; This is a chance for a recent Business and Finance

■l' graduate, who wants to use their report writing and
analytical skills. Somesecretaiatf administrative work
wffl also be involved.

Senior Secretary

International Marketing

This is a high profile role demanrfing exceptional
organisational skills. Initiative andobmmitment are
also paramount and you'll need considerable-
experienGe as a PA

Jf you would like to work in an informal but
hardworking, exdting and youthful environment,
please send, your cv. and reasons for wanting to
work for Sony Music, along with your salary
expectations to: Rachel Pain, Human Resources
Officer, Sony Muse Entertainment, 10 Great
Marlborough Street, London W1V 2LP. Alternatively,
fax your details to Rachel on 071 91 ] 8749.

Closing date 18th November 1994.

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The -wftddfc favourite airline is looking for cus¬
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needed to deliver world-class customer service.We
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telephone enquiries) stating your name, address, co smile about.

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As PA tothe Chief BcscoSw of this top
range woman’s fashion ratal company,
you w* have a high profile and wry
responsibte rale. A retefi/fashton
background an■ advantage. Previous
board level experience and100/60 skflte
essential. Age 2M5 years. Please
telephone 071 489 8070.

Elizabeth Hunt ^

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FLUENT FRENCH

, £14,000

The marketing team m this famous
In terna tio na l cosmetics company era
looking for a Evety team secretary with
lots of tnUative to assist them. Two
years secretarial experience, 50 wpcn
copy typtog and WP experience needed.
Knowledge of Word 4 Windows an
advantage. Age 22-28 years. Please
telephone 071 489 8070.

Elizabeth Hunt

Recruitment Consultants

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c.£20,000 + b/benefits

This role would suit an enthusiastic,
ambitious graduate with previous
financial experience. Lots of
UK/International liaison with brokers,

has only a 30% secretariat content Early
to mid Si's. Please telephone 071 828
9529.

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Offer secretarial support to this dynamic
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Financial experience is not essential but
proficiently with Word 4 Windows and
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Based in fabulous West End offices, this is an
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Frierafiy, young City-Oasod company needs a
flexible, wefl organised secretary to join their
expanding taam. This is a key position which
would suit a confident, outgoing person who
would enjoy the variety of a role combining
secretarial, administration and recaption
responsfoflities. City experience preferred.
Age: 20+. Skills: 60 typing.

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OFFICE MANAGER

Fast-growing W1 financial publishing and conference
company, employing 60 end with offices hi Chicago end
Hong Kong, seeks oh adm an stT O toc with o strong interest hi
penomid. Heading a small team and reporting fa fhe
Fnance Director, you wfll be articulate, literate and
namerate, have word processing and spreadsheet
experience, proven excellent office management and
personnel sUH, and the abt&ty to prioritise a busy, varied
workload and stay coho under pressure. In return for
professkroaSsm and Commitment we offer exciting loag-
term prospects and a storting salary of £20-22,000 a.o.e^
phis perform an ce-finked bonus.

Send CV with handwritten covering letter to:

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Lane, London W1M 5FU.

Secretary To Managing Partner
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a mature, confident & professional
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standards, admin skills, tactful authority, be
at home in a hectic environment & have a
flexible approach xo your work.

Please send full CV together with current
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SECRETARIAL _

What steps must a secretary take to change her image? Beryl Dixon found out

THE TIMES WED NESDAY NQVEMBER21994

H ave you often
dreamt of a new
image? We took a
volunteer. Clare
Creagh-Osbome, to Irene Na¬
than. an image consultant to
see what suggestions she
would make. Her consulta¬
tions begin with a detailed
analysis of a client's lifestyle.
Must their working wardrobe
conform to a particular dress
code? What proportion of their
budget goes on leisure wear
and most importantly what
kind of image do they want to
give to other people?

Clare was asked searching
questions. Initially she was
self-deprecating: “I'm hopeless
about clothes." (Not true. Her
favourite outfit which she had
been requested to wear was
well coordinated. I “I never
know what I want to wear,
and I hate shopping."

She was soon put at ease
and began to develop more
confidence as the session pro¬
ceeded. By the end she was
enthusing: “That was brilliant
I thoroughly enjoyed it. And I
have some good ideas now." It
was established that her job
with Douglas and Gordon, a
London estate agent requires
her to look both smart and
approachable. Personally, she
would like to look stylish
without dressing in the height
of fashion.

Now it was down to busi¬
ness. Mrs Nathan seated
Clare in front of a mirror and
held swatches of every con¬
ceivable colour against her
face. Mrs Nathan does not

I want to look
different, please

like some colour analysts,
classify clients into colour
groups. She believes that ev¬
eryone can wear every colour.
It is a question of tone. This
was proved time and time
again as Clare tried different
shades.

“My instinct tells me that
you will look wonderful in
green." announced Mrs Na¬
than. Clare reacted in horror.
She did look good — in dark
shades, but not in olive. Even¬
tually Clare had tried every
shade of every colour. Finally
she admitted, “I have always
played safe and gone for
neutral shades. Now I see that
I can wear colour — but deep
rather than bright shades."

Mrs Nathan made up a set
of mini swatches for Clare in
three categories: her best neu¬
tral shade: core colours and
those which could be used to
accentuate an outfit' and. fi¬
nally, style. Now Gare was
faced with placing a series of
fashion photographs into
three piles — those she liked:
those she would hate to wear
and those she would choose
for a special occasion.

Accessories were discussed

next Larger, more unusual
jewellery than she might
choose was recommended and
finally a total look was arrived
at Being tall and slim, with
naturally good posture and an
admitted preference for “no
fuss", she was advised to opt

C She believes
that everyone
can wear every
colour. It’s
all a question
of tone 9

for either long skirts or those
coming just above the knee
and to choose soft rather than
heavy fabrics in either plain
colours or a limited selection of
patterns. Tips and sketches
were added to the growing
portfolio which she could take
away for reference.

Building up a wardrobe,
says Mrs Nathan, need not be

coo expensive. "There are some
excellent dress agencies
around, for example.” Care
was given the names of two
shops and cme agency. She
was also asked to spend some
time window-shopping, which
she agreed to do with less
reluctance than she might
have done earlier.

“I want you to spend two
Saturdays just looking,” Mrs
Nathan said. Then buy a
beautiful jacket with good
buttons as your first purchase.
Follow that with a blouse. You
cant wear trousers for work,
you say, but you could buy
some for leisure wear to match
the blouse."

Mrs Nathan's Golden Rules
are that every garment in your
wardrobe should:

□ co-ordinate with at least
three other hems

□ be able to be worn at a
minimum of three different
types of event

□ last three years

In order to follow these

□ buy the best you can

□ buy less

□ wear each garment more
frequently

Gare left highly satisfied
and determined now to com¬
plete the makeover by having
a make-up lesson with Ste¬
phen Glass. Mrs Nathan's
colleague. Mr Glass also be¬
gins by asking his clients
questions — about their job.
the image they would like to
project and how much make¬
up they like to use. He does not
sell any cosmetics but uses a
cross-section of brands from
20 different cosmetic houses —
all on display at the studio.

A lesson lasts for about 90
minutes. If a client is consider¬
ing taking both fashion and
make-up advice, they are ad¬
vised ro consult Mrs Nathan
first for the style analysis,
followed by Mr Glass.

• Details: Face Facts. 73 Wigmon
Street. London WIH 9LH 071-486
8287. Make-up lesson with Ste¬
phen Class. £59. Irene Nathan:
0721S44682 for a consultation at
Face Facts. Cost: £50 per hour.
SPECIAL OFFER: Crime readers
booking a consultation before the
end of December will receive a 10
per cent discount on presentation
of this article.

CREME 95. the Exea*
tive Secretary Show from
June 14 to 16,1995 will be
held at Olympia for the
first time. The Industrial
Society will provide
6.000 seminar places cov¬
ering personal develop¬
ment and management
issues.

Details: Jenny Moore
071-782 6392.

Swatch out: Clare Creagb-Osbome, left, with Irene Nathan, consultant at FaceE»d&

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PA TO MD OF
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A major independent music and book
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experienced PA to support the MD in both his
business and personal affairs.

Together with your excellent secretarial skills,
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highly organised with the ability to juggle a
multitude of tasks. Duties include making
international travel arrangements and co¬
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frequent absense of the MD and the ability to
communicate well at all levels is essential.
You should be able to work well under
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to working hours.

Please apply in writing, enclosing your current
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MARKETING

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young dynamic management team. The position is prinqpdty
as PA/Secretary to tt» Director?. AppGcants should few a
good telephone meaner, a good knowledge of WP for
windows audio, ntsty s/h. Applicants must be able to work
on their own insbativs aid deal with aB the day to day
requirements of the office.

Salary c£J fi.flGO - £18.000 pfas benefits.

Please serai your CV to Managing Director, finance Ltd.
Swiss Cottage House. 8/13 Sores Terrace. London NWS 4RR
No Agencies.

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Two advertising soles
managers require bright,
efficient secretary. Skills to
include WordPerfect 6 for
DOS and shorthand.
Languages useful.

Salary o£ 15,000 ncg.
Friendly office in central
location.

CV to Anne Page,
institutional Investor,
Imperial Buildings,

56 Kingsway, London
WC2B 6DX
or Fax 071-404-5455.

MOSS & CO

AucEo Secretary/PA

required for
busy criminal practice.

Salary negotiable.
Please sand e.v. to:
Moss & Co
388 Strand
London
WC2R OLT

DIRECTORS SEC
£19.000

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soaks bnOam organiser
to hands last-moving
dynamic env iro n. Must
be mature, prof + ease
comnajnicadon skffls. 66
wont fyp. WP 25-35 yrs.

071-437 3793
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a job here you wl fad yourself working at Director
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and on the be). Howromr as much as skffla are
fc n poit a nt , your sense of femora, and you atoffltyto get
on wkh al sorts of people is also vital

18-21 Jcmya Street, Lvrioa SW1Y 6HP
Telephone 071 7347341

EXECUTIVE

SECRETARY

Based In Famborough

Our cflent ts a leader in software based IT
services throughout Europe and this year
achieved unprecedented growth In the market¬
place. Their long term plans are exciting raid wffl
provide stimulation and challenge to their
existing 1900 employees.

They seek to recruit an Executive Secretary to
the Chief Executive Officer, a vacancy brought
about by a change in career for the present
Incumbent, wfthki the c ompany. The role wfll
predom inantly consist of managing the
dentarKfing business activities of their CEO. in
an efficient and professional m anner.

The successful candidate wffl have attained
several years experience working at
Board/Senior Management level in a dynamic
company environment You wffl need excelent
shorthand and typing skills, resilience,
resourcefitnese and be extremely organised.
Needfoss to say strong interpersonal strife and
a good sense of humour are pre-requkttes in
this role.

if you beDeve you are ready to taka on this
chalenging rote then please send your C.V and
delate of your current salary to:

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Barks RQ12 1AR.

City Cracker!

Let us send you rocketing towards Xmas
with some of the best jobs in the City.
We need:

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* 2 yean secretarial experience

If you are presentable, flexible and stilling
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you:

* Up to £9 per hour plus overtime

* Free X-training

* A friendly and efficient service
Call Victoria, Una or Rosey now on

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Hobstones

-Recruitment Consultants_

SECRETARY/ RECEPTIONIST

Be part of a friendly team at a small, interna tio nal company.
Good g ga n aa tional skSs, professional telephone meaner
ebfty to work order pressure, fast and asarata WP
moortait. Apple Mac literate.

Mromn WP (50wpm) cf15.000 sm.

Send CV with day tore ranted number
by Friday 11th November to

Lynda Thomas. ECM, 3(b) laribroke &ore. London W11 SO

ASST TO DIRECTOR OF
HUMAN RESOURCES
£20,000-23,000 -l- Med + Pens
+ STL

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& i ntaigant a aa taten t to work e tongakie tint Human
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^ 4 i? as ^g PeFre itas held at bay as Western Australia achieve draw

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* ^er reitas held at bay as western Australia acmeve draw H-l . 7Z 7

„„ * . . * Sporting excellence and

England pulled up ui victory chase innocent presumptions

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agng^festern Australia if

7 iT v roots

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Jose positions fat Philip
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re gard t o the other.

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howling attack of four

wifll twwlmg attack of four

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a there is a month. to make Keith

and Ttanksgiving rolled into

out • ■-••••• .

h is “the wpato’S
tog«t sporting event- and
JOaDAustrahan". Unwitting-
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the glo bal No I. But as a
nal k wm l t otem, it towers above
So far as the

Aust ralian pubfic is concearrMvi

/the summer of cricket has yet

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n* good conditions, were led
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was separated from John
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byu neck. Mike Gattrng and
Graham Thorpe were also-
rans. . . • ^

Even though there are three
matches to go before the first .
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doubt Who bats at six? Who
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man here, as die state ride
ended an 272 for five,, should,
have helped to firm up one of

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Sacond Inningi 383 for 6 doc (G A Wck.
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Second (ratings '

G B Hogac Rhodes b CflRaftas__ 0
M P Lavender tmb DeFtetet 51

M GoocMr/c sub b DeFrofta* _77

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T M Moody c RhodSb mh3£i 19 •'

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Total (5 wtta) 7-_ 272

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4-186 5-217. ,

fiOWLWG: DeFreftas 21-4-604; Mtf-
fiotm 184-42-0; Bentanrtio 6-1-320;
McCtVua 19-2-57-1; Tfick 149600;
ASwiton 2-060.

Umpires; S J Duls and T A Pa».

managtTi reconsider, though
he is hardly one of nature's
aawnturers. If ranting . who
; had - an. awful match, plays
ahead of Crawley in Adelaide
l ater t his week it will be a
betrayal of the selectors’

This was a revealing match
in many ways, and what it
" revealed about' Gatling was
nett.terribly flattering. It is
obvious now. if there were
ever any waverers. that the
indorion of both him and
Gooch in the same Test ride is
an absurdity. The ambulance¬
men would need to be on full- -
time alert i-

There was an• extremely
funny xnmneot Jiere when
Gooch. Gatting andCrawiey,

: who is not the swiftest mover,
converged on die ball by die
midwicket , boundary after
charing it from fielding posit¬
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a race that would have wor¬
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Eke Mkhael Slater. He might
well have run' seven.

In fairness England were a
shade unlucky. When DeFrei-
tas took a wicket with die
second ball of the day they got

the start th^r needed and well

he bowled throughout the day.
He needed to. Benjamin
Emped offwifh a groin strain .
after bowling only six overs
and. when the ball took die
edge, it invariably fell just
short of a catcher. •

DeFreitas bowled wefl in

this mgtr hj irMWd hag had

a good first week. He can rest
during the match against
South Australia, happy with -
his form and — g iv en the
injuries elsewhere — his fit¬
ness. He will have a kit of
bonding to do an this tour and
he kxdcs lean and hungry,
readyforthe ehafieng e.

- McCague ran - in more
smooddy and bowled at some-
filing Eke his quukest He had

DeFreitas, who captured four Western Australia wickets yesterday, begins his run-up

just one wicket to show but it
was a good one, Martyn, who
was drawn towards a ball that
left him. Malcolm did not
bowl poorly but he did his best
work here in the first innings.

Goodwin, the 21-year-old
opener, made his second half-
century of the match, putting

on 119 for the second wicket
with Lavender. DeFreitas ac¬
counted for both batsmen.
Lavender was leg-before not
offering a stroke to a ball that
cut bade. Goodwin slashed to
cover where Craig White, the
substitute fielder, held a de-‘
cent catch.

Michael Atherton, die cap¬
tain. was content that England
had given a fair account of
themselves. ‘There is a gener¬
al disdain for English cricket
in Australia and it is impor¬
tant that we do well in these
games to show we can still
produce decent players.”

P otential jurors for the
trial of O. J. Simpson
must complete an 80-
page test, containing 294
questions. Question 267
reads: “Are you a fan of the
Buffalo Biilsr
This is surreal. The jurors
will not be voting for their
favourite American football¬
er they are weighing up the
facts of murder- Simpson is
charged with killing his ex-
wife and her friend- The case
is horrific drenched with
blood, a tale of almost un¬
imaginable horror.

Is it probable, is it even
possible that any one could
allow something so trivial as
a sporting allegiance (o cloud
his vision of the truth in a
matter of life and death?

Q early, the lawyers sur¬
rounding the Simpson case
like bees round a honeypoL
emphatically believe that
this is so: that if you were a ■
supporter of the Bills, the
love you bore Simpson — the
greatest Buffalo Bill since
Cody. 70 touchdowns, 10,183
yards rushing. I3S points in a
single season — would preju¬
dice you overwhelmingly in
his favour.

Let us anglicise matters a
little. It could never happen,
but say David Gower were
involved in a country house
murder mystery: found in
the library with the corpse at
his feet and in his hand a
blood-stained paper-knife of
curious oriental design.

Surely a misunderstand¬
ing. our hearts respond: the
Gower we know could not be
a murderer. Nobody who
played that flick-pull across
the line would stoop so low.

For Gower has given most
of us considerable pleasure,
and that is not a trivial
matter. One cannot be indif¬
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wishes him well: in trouble,
perhaps would be disposed
in his favour.

The question “are you
now. or have you ever been a
cricket-lover” is certainly
worth asking of anyone who
makes a judgment about
Gower’s personal life.

Genius forgives all This is
a dubious proposition, but
posterity’s unquestioning
forgiveness of people of ge-

MIDWEEK VIEW

SIMON

BARNES

nhts is a commonplace.
James Joyce was impossible
about money: but he wrote
Ulysses, so what does it
matter? Marcel Proust's sex¬
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does suffer so dreadfully in
the original).

Syphilitic painters, alco¬
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poets: their names are legion.
The obvious first step is to.
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not — cannot possibly —
invalidate their work.

The second step is to
forgive all these excesses.
The work they produced is so
important gives so much
pleasure, remains to delight
when the rubbish of a messy
fife has been cleared away:
that is what matters.

Personal relationships af¬
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Gower given pleasure

great artist creates a kind of
personal relationship in bis
audience: so does a great
athlete.

The pleasure one takes in
an athlete’s life-work cannot
help but prejudice you in the
athlete’s favour. This effect is
generally doubled when it
involves a loyalty to a local or
national team.

Tony Adams, the Arsenal
centre half and captain, and
England captain last time
ouL was sent to prison after a
shameful incident of drunk
driving. Arsenal supporters
gave him a hero’s welcome
on his return. Ellery Hanley
has known trouble: as a great
rugby player and victorious
Great Britain coach, he is
another hero.

And from loyally to blind
loyalty: a feeling, not of mere
warmth and goodwill to¬
wards O.J. Simpson, but a
complete refusal to believe
that such a person could
possibly do such a deed. For
some people, the Simpson
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et. It is right that it is so: the
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been wonderfully

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If sport did not exist they
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literature affects and col¬
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United prepare for test of endurance

By Rob Hughes

FOOTBALL CORRES POND ENT

BARCELONA versus Manchester
United, game two. sets the pulse
racins like a motorcycle engine
jammed in first gear. How much
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system after the Champions' League
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fortnight ago at Old Trafford?

If either of these teams is going to
attempt in any way to lower the pace
and compulsion of attacking football,
it will be United. Alex Ferguson, their
manager, willing to throw the teen-
aged talents. Nicky Bun and Paul
Scholes. into a cauldron which will
contain 120,000 fiercely partisan
Catalan spectators, spoke immed¬
iately after the first game of the need
for discipline, the requirement to
defend with depth the way his team
had in Istanbul against Galatasaray.

Johan Cruyff, his opposite

number, knows no other way than to
attack, to risk all in the cause not
merely of victory but of glory. His
side, one of the most expensive the
world has seen, owes its supporters
that much, particularly after manag¬
ing only another draw. 1-1, away to
Real Sodedad last Sunday. In that
game, Romario had scored his inev¬
itable goal, and, without Ronald
Koeman, who was rested, Barcelona
surrendered that lead.

The mention of Romario still sends
a frisson up die spine of Ferguson. In
Manchester, Ferguson dared to drop
his captain. Bruoe, and ask Parker,
one of three players defying the
surgeon's scapel, to shut out
Romario, the most elusive sniper on
turf. Ferguson seldom gives his team
or his tactics away, but it is assumed
that Bruce will be back. “I was afraid
at Old Trafford of the counter-attack
of Barcelona," Ferguson said, ex¬
plaining the inclusion of Parker. Ar
the time it appeared to be a worthy

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tactical change; but now. believing
Barcelona will have an even more
concerted commitment to attack.
Ferguson talks of defensive strength.

And Bruce? like most British
defenders, he believes there is no¬
body he needs fear. “I don't believe
Romario will cause any more prob¬
lems than somebody like Alan Shear¬
er or Ian Rush.” Bruce said defiantly.

He has never met Romario. He has
no conception of the guile, the
movement, the instinct that drives
this little Brazilian. And while he is
about it, he should include among the
“problems" the artful dives that not
only Romario but also his Bulgarian
colleague, Hristo Stoichkov, perform
around the penalty box.

To win in the Nou Camp would be
United's dream. To draw would keep
every option open to them, every
possibility of progressing to the
quarter-finals. To lose? Then it
would be become a dogfight not so
much with Barcelona but with IFK
Gothenburg, the Swedish champions
who have already beaten Barcelona
in Sweden.

While the advanced guard of
ticketless United followers have pock¬
marked their dub's glory with 17
arrests for skirmishes m and around
the Ramblas. those who finish up
with no tickets for the Nou Camp
may journey north to Uoret de Mar,

where there are 1.000 places avail¬
able around a giant screen. It will be
a question of coping with the atmo¬
sphere. with the whole swell of
Catalan fervour that will test
United’s nerve.

This kind of game is something
none of the young lads could have
dreamed about at the beginning of
the season,” Ferguson said! “I've got
to make sure that they are properly
prepared.”

Those comments indeed suggest
places for the precocious Butt and for
Scholes, who so cheekily attempted to
chip Carlos Busquets when be came
on as a substitute late in the game at
Old Trafford game.

If so. Ryan Giggs, who was
scintillating when he was their age
yet has became fretful will not get the
opportunity to test Barcelona’s over-
adventurous defence down the left
flank.

MANCHESTER UNITED (probable): P Scrtnelcfirt:
P Rafter, S Broca. G Padster, □ Intfn. A KanchetstaE.
R Keane, P Inca, N Bun. P Scholes, M Hughes.

Rovers face stern test at Hillsborough

Wednesday’s form
poses threat to
Blackburn’s hopes

SHEFFIELD Wednesday bel¬
ieve thar they have shrugged
off their traditional slow start
to the season. If they are right,
it could spell trouble for Blade-
bum Rovers' hopes of main¬
taining the pace near the top of
the FA Carling Premiership
table.

Wednesday's poor start put
some early pressure on their
manager. Trevor Francis, but
his side go into die meeting
with Blackburn at Hills¬
borough tonight having suf¬
fered only one defeat in six
league and cup matches. “We
seem to have made a bad start
for the past three seasons,” the
Wednesday assistant manag¬
er, Richie Barker, said yester¬
day, “but. having said that, we
are in a better position now
than we were last year.

“In the last few matches we
have put a bit of form together.
We’ve beaten Manchester
United, Ipswich and South¬
ampton and lost just the one,
to Newcastle. We’ve shown we
can compete with the best with
the victory aver Manchester
United, and Blackburn will be
another big game.”

Wednesday expect John
Sheridan, die midfield player
who was carried off with a
knee injury on Saturday dur¬
ing the I-I draw with Chelsea,
to have recovered, along with
Mark Bright, the striker who
had stitches inserted in a cut
behind the knee.

By Our Sports Staff

Des Walker has also been
cleared to play in defence
because he is still waiting for
his misconduct charge to be
heard after his sending-off
against Ipswich a fortnight
ago.

The Blackburn manager.
Kenny Dalglish, is expected to
keep faith with the side that
ended Nottingham Forest’s
unbeaten start to the season at
the weekend. Victory would
enable Rovers to overtake
Manchester United and For¬
est and take second place on
goal difference, two points
behind the leaders. Newcastle.

“Since losing to Manchester
United we have scored four
goals and given away none.”
Dalglish said. “Everybody
takes credit for clean sheets,
and if the past is anything to
go by the fans are in for an
entertaining game."

The Coventry City manager.
Phil Neal, has warned his
players not to underestimate
Crystal Palace, who will be
looking for a third successive
league victory when they go to
Highfield Read tonight “They
have kept three dean sheets in
a row and nicked some good
results,” Neal said. “We have
to pick up points against
teams similar to ourselves,
and Palace are in that
category.”

Coventry, two points ahead
of Palace in thirteenth place,
are also on a good run, but will

be forced to give Brian Bor¬
rows. their defender, a late
fitness test on the hamstring
he injured in the weekend
defeat of Manchester City.

Southampton, whose splen¬
did run of five successive
victories has been followed by
three league defeats in a row.
will be looking to end that
sequence at The Dell against
Norwich City, who have won
one just once away from
Carrow Road this season.

Alan Ball, the Southampton
manager, is likely to name an
unchanged side, with Iain
Dowie continuing to lead the
anack against the dub with
which he had talks about a
possible transfer during the
summer.

Bruce Grobbelaar, the
Southampton goalkeeper, will
again wear a face mask to
protea the cheekbone he shat¬
tered during the match
against Everton a month ago.
Neil Heaney, the winger, has
recovered from an ankle
injury.

□ Daley Thompson, the for¬
mer world and Olympic de¬
cathlon champion, scored
twice on his first appearance
for the Vauxhall Conference
side. Stevenage Borough, in a
32 Eastern Floodlit League
victory over Ware on Monday
night Thompson is on trial
with Stevenage, and is expect¬
ed to be included in one of
their sides on Saturday.

Sheffield Wednesday hope Sheridan will be fit to resume his midfield place tonight

McGinlay goes back to Hibs Stapleton aims to lift Brighton

HIBERNIAN yesterday made
a club record signing when
they paid £420,000 to retrieve
a former player. Pat McGin¬
lay. from Celtic (Kevin
McCarra writes). The move
emphasises the desire of the
Edinburgh dub to hold or
improve its second place in the
league. Their previous record
purchase was the £400,000.
spent on Keith Wright in 1991.

McGinlay. who joined Hibs
as a free transfer in 1987. was a
successful midfield player at
the club until the summer of
last year when Celtic bought
him for £525,000. Although
ending the season as Celtic's

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top scorer, he was regularly
played out of position.

Since Tommy Bums be¬
came Celtic manager in July,
McGinlay's appearances in
the side have been irregular.
“1 don't think he failed at all
there," said Alex Miller, the
Hibs manager. "He was not ■
played in his best position. I
feel I now have the strongest
squad in the eight years I have
been Hibs’ manager."

At Celtic. Bums is now
expected to strengthen his own
squad with the money raised
by McGinlay's sale. Mean¬
while, Hearts have demon¬
strated their dissatisfaction

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with the ten-match ban on
their defenders, Craig Levein
and Graeme Hogg, which was
upheld by an appeals commit¬
tee on Monday. The penalty
was imposed after the pair
brawled with one another
during a pre-season friendly.

In view of the severity of the
sentence. McLean has pro¬
posed to his directors that the
club's own punishment should
be lifted, if agreed, the players
would each have restored to
them the two weeks' wages
that they were fined, and
Levein would be reinstated as
chib captain.

SCHOOLS MATCH: Oakham 16 Sartort
26

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bt A Hannah 5-1: M Stevens (Wan bl P
Freeman 5-2. R Bany M E Murro [Scoj 54). M

FRANK Stapleton believes he
can finish his playing career
on a high note at Brighton, as
well as assist in the develop¬
ment of young players. The
former Arsenal Manchester
United and Republic of Ire¬
land striker has joined Brigh¬
ton on a non-contract basis.

“It'll still be a thrill to play
and 1 feel fit enough to do it,”
he said. “I will be giving it
everything I’ve got and hope¬
fully I can help Brighton
move up the second division.”

Stapleton. 3S. who is in the
squad for tonight’s home
match with Bournemouth,
has been told by Liam Brady.

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the manager, that Brighton
have several young players in
their first season of first-team
football. Brighton have taken
only one point from the last
five league games and al¬
though Brady, the second
division manager of the
month for September when
Brighton were unbeaten, has
no money for signings, be is
hoping to strengthen his
squad with loan players.

Gary Lineker’s playing
career may have been ended
by a chest injury which could
keep him out at Grampus 8
until his planned retirement
at the end of the Japanese

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season. The former England
striker needs four weeks to
recover, doctors say, and the
season ends in three weeks.

The Ireland squad has been
named for the European
Championship qualifying
group six tie ai home to
Northern Ireland on Novem¬
ber 16.

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Two dub
coaches
asked to
explain
conduct

By Christopher Irvine

NINE players and the coaches

of Dewsbury and S win ton are
faring disciplinary action by
the Rugby Football League
(RFL) as a result of the recent
ill-tempered second division
match between the dubs that
has already brought them
fines of EL500 each.

Tony Barrow, of S win ton,
and Norman Smith, the
Dewsbury coach, are due to
appear today before the RFL
board of directors to explain
alleged comments directed af¬
terwards at Brian Gal tress,
the match referee, who sent off
four players.

The Bradford official report¬
ed the pair for encroaching the
field of play and comments
made to him and his two touch
judges, allegations that Bar-
row has denied in a letter to
the Iflag iip-

“I will but am consid¬

ering taking legal advice,* he
said.

Both dubs have complained
about the handling, of the
match. Malcolm White, the
Swinton chairman, said most
of foe trouble had stemmed
from the referee’s poor controL
“Somebody has to sit down
and watch the whole tape,"
said Jack Addy. the Dewsbury
dub president “The referee
and touch judges all had bad
games.”

A separate trial by video will
deride tomorrow whether five
players, in addition to those
sent off. will be punished for
their part in a brawl Dave
Harthfll, Glen Prince and
Tony Humphries, of Swinton.
and Eddie Rnmhn and Shane
Williams, of Dewsbury, have
been ordered to appear before
the RFL disciplinary commit¬
tee.

Following fighting in file
first half of last week's match,
that Dewsbury won easily
enough with the opposition
reduced to ten men, Andy
Purcell, of Swinton, and Ian
Bates, of the home side, were
dismissed. They were followed
later ty Gavin Price-Jones and
Ian Skeech, of Swinton, for
fouls.

The Australians were hop¬
ing to be spared farther injury
problems m their tour match
at St Helens last night ahead
of the second international
against Great Britain on Sat¬
urday.

The biggest concern is Steve
Walters. The hooker has a
dead-leg, but Laurie Daky
and Bradley Clyde, who have
not played since the defeat at
Wembley, are expected to be
named in the side today.

Jonathan Davies, Paul
Newlove and Daryl Powell are
bring given time to recover ;
from injuries but EBay Han- :
ley, the Great Britain coach,
will announce his final 17 for
Old Trafford today.

Nigel Wright, the Wakefield
Trinity standoff, is likely to
ntiss the Stones Bitter champ¬
ionship game at Salford on
Friday. However, a shoulder
injury should not prevent his
participation in the Great.
Bri tain under-21 match with
Australia at Gateshead on
November 15.

The Student Rugby League
representation in the Silk Cut
Challenge Cup this season has
been increased from one ride
to two. Cardiff Institute of
Higher Education and Leeds
Metropolitan University will
be in volved in the draw for the
first round to be played on
Deoernber 10 and 11.

Hooper’s
centuiy
proves the
final say

WEST INDIES, inspired fay a
sparkling centuiy from (fail
Hooper and Ranjan Dhan-
raj’s leg spin, outplayed New
Zealand yesterday to reach the
final of a triangular one-day
cricket tournament against
India.

Hooper shared stands of Ill
in 125 bails with Brian Lara,
who made a stylish 69, and MB
from only 86 balls with Keith
Arthurian, who hit a rapid 45
in 47 balls. Hoopers 111 from
114 balls helped the West
Indies to a massive 50-over
total of 306 for six after
winning the toss at Gauhafts
Nehru Stadium.

Dhanraj then took four fofjl
26 in his secon d one-day"
appearance, all his wideets
conning in the space of 18 balls
for just two runs. New Zea¬
land were never in the hunt,
finishing their 50 overs on 171
for nine as West Indies won fay
135 runs. It was sweet revenge
for West Indies who were
humiliated in the first match
between the two safes in Goa
when New Zealand bowled
them out for just 123 before
rain saved the day.

Marshall on
his way up

Squash: Peter Marshall the
British champion, is fikriy to
be promoted to world No2
behind Jansher Khan- on a
new ranking list due to-be
issued try the Professional
Squash Association today. -

Marshall led CanrifTnig Onh

to a 34) victory over Jim Hall
Sports Northern in foe Super
League fay beating Alex
Gough, foe Welsh No 2. 94,
9-3, 9-L The win for Garmons
enabled than to preserve a
two-point lead-
Victories by Chris Walker,
the England No 2, and Ross
Norman, a former world
champion, helped ICL lion
Herts, their nearest pursuers,
to a 2-1 victory over Wdsh.
Back Wizards. ...

Speedy Conner

Yachtiag: Dennis Conner
may be struggling to make
itny impact in foe. Americas
world champiomhip with
his 1991 vintage boat. Stars
and Stripes, but had high
hopes fix’ a new'yacht when
she was delivered, to his San
Diego base yesterday.

Developed with support
from Boring and Cray super¬
computers, Dave Pedrkk, foe
chief designer, said that he ex¬
pected her to be faster than
John Bertrand's oneAustmlia,
which is so far proving die
boat to beat in the world
championships-

Day to Roux

Tennis: Lionel Roux, of
France, delighted foe home
supporters by upsetting Mfch-
ad Stich, erf Germany, the
third seed wifo an inqxessive
straight-sets win in a second^
round match at the, Paris
- Open yesterday.

A strong serve awl powerful
baseline strokes allowed Roux
to move past a sluggish Stich
6-3. 64 after 77 minutes erf a
ane-rided contest
“I was stow and didnot play
weD at all" Stich conced ed. He
made many, unfor ced errors
and could miss the ATP Tour
world championship to be /
held in Frankfurt later this
month.

Solid Salim leads revival

TOOArS^XTURHS

CYCLING

_ football _

AVON INSURANCE COMBMATKM: Bret
Palara 0 TaBBf*ia#n 0

UEFACUP: Second round: Second leg:
Teks&tahfc Kamyshn (Russ) 1 Nantas (Ft) 2
ugg: 1-*l. Red Madnd 4 Dynamo MosemrO
(agg 6-2J- Bayai Lmertusan (Gad 5 Wapoa
Homed (Hungary) o (agg 7-01.

FA CARLING RRSWERSHIP: OPR 2
Liverpool 1

808 LORO TROPHY: Second round: Batfi
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BORO QMS NATIONAL LEAGUE: League
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Newcastle 3 Port Vote 2.

AVON INSURANCE COMBINATION: Rntf
tfvBton: S*n3on 1 Luton 2
DtADORA LEAGUE: Cartsbwg Cup: Sec-
ond round: Purflaei 2 East Thunxk a
FA YOUTH CUP: FtaS round- Barrawy 1

FA Premier League l**JeM9
Trophy: Lancashire Wte* 3 YcrteNres

RUGBY UNION

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FOOTBALL
European Cup
Champions' League, group A

Barcelona v Man Utd.

FA Carling Premiership

Covertly v Crystal Palace (7 451 ....

Shed Wed v Biack&um (7.4S).

Southampton v Norwich.

Endeieigh Insurance League
First dhfeion

Oerby v Reading [7 45) ....

MMvrafl v Portsmouth (7 45) .

Slake v Shaft Ltd (7 451 .

Wasi Brom v Port Vale (7 45i.

Second division

Bradiord v Brentford (7 451.

Brighton v Bournemouth (7.45) . .

Chester v Stockport.

DtADORA LEAGUE: Prerrter dvtaorc
Hamm v Kngstonon Carisbetg Cup:
Second round: (WordOiy vCnwnam.
BEAZER HOMES LEAGUE: Southern
HMsI on: TonWdgevBury
NORTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE. ChaB-
ange Cup: Second round: Aeennaon
Stanley v Hyde: Bebop Auckland vFricfitoy:
Boston v Matlock.

FA VASE: First-round replays: Gearing v
Mar KA

GREAT MILLS LEAGUE: Premier dMstorc
Caine v Frame; Tomngton v Tiverton.
JEWSON EASTERN COUNTIES
LEAGUE: Premier dvtton: Sucfajy v
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JEWSON WESSEX LEAGUE. First di¬
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FEDERATION BREWERY NORTHERN
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v NorthaSenon

CARLING NORTH WEST COUNTIES
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round: Darwen » Hofrer otd Bovs
HEREWARD SPORTS UNTIED COUN¬
TIES LEAGUE: Premter division: Bcums »
Eynastxjry

KONICA LEAGUE OF WALES: APerw-
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Lanoffl x Inter Cardiff Ton Psrire » Barry
PONT1NS LEAGUE; Second division:
Bamsiey v Oldham (7 ooi
AVON INSURANCE COMBINATION:
League Cup: Bain ,- Birmingham- Heroiord
v Swansea i7 C«jJ First dnnslor: Norwich v
Southampton Swictan v Odord UW
REPRESENTATIVE MATCH: Amaleur
Footoall Affence v Army FA
RUGBY UNION
Tour match

Neath v South Africa XV (7 05 . .

Club matches

Bangor v Instonians.

Durham City v West Hantepool . .
Moseley v Barkers Bu3s

Penarth v Cardrtt [ 7 . 15 ) .

OTHER SPORT

BASKETBALL: European Cup: Third
round, eecmd lea SpU (Croi (72) v
Thames Valley Tigers (771
Budwefcer League: Ufcesiet Ftetera a

Sheffield Sharks

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Manchester 3 'Domore Valet Dragons 0;
Rackets Oub 0 LngbeM 3: Welsh Back
Wteanfe 1 CLUonHMiaZ

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PAKISTAN, deprived at the
eleventh hour of their front¬
line pace a ttack of Wasim
Akram and Waqar Younis,
reached 255 for five on the
opening day of the third and
final Test against Australia in
Lahore yesterday.

Salim Malik, the Pakistan
captain, opted to bat on a
placid prtdt and was top
scorer with 75. receiving solid
support from Iruamam-ul-
Haq, who hit a fluent 66. At
the close, nine balls early
because of fading fight. Qaz
Ahmad (35) and the
wicketkeeper, Moin Khan
(39). had shared an unbroken
partnership of 46.

Yet all was overshadowed
by the withdrawal shortly
before the start of Wasim ana
Waqar. Wasim complained of
a sinus problem and a stiff
back and Waqar explained he
was suffering from a damaged
hamstring.

Waqar denied they had
withdrawn because of a dis¬
pute with Salim, who Had
reportedly criticised their
bowling during the final on
Sunday of a triangular limit¬
ed-overs series, a match that
Australia won by 64 runs.
Waqar said: “I am happy with
the captaincy.”

By Our Sports Staff

Salim and Inzamam shared
a third-wicket partnership of
123 from £)8 balls to help their
side overcome a shaky start
after the openers, Aamir
Sohail and Saeed Anwar, were
dispatched to the pavilion with
only 34 runs on the
scoreboard.

The late withdrawal of the
two fast bowlers left Pakistan,
who lead- the series 1-0, to
irclude Mohsin Kama], the
fast bowler and Akram Raza.
foe off spinner, in a team
already carrying four
changes. Australia brought in
Phfl Emery, who replaced foe

Salim Malik: top scorer

utfuied wicketkeeper. Ian
Healy, for his first cap.

Tim May, the off spinner,
finally broke foe tirfwidtet
partnership when be had
Iroamaim leg-before -in foe
afternoon session. Inzamam,
who passed 1,000 rims in his
nineteenth Test match, went
back to a delivery that kept
straight His fourth Test haif-
century included 13 fours from
144 balls.

Salim, after an innings con¬
taining ten fours, was splen¬
didly causjbi by Michael
Bevan, diving at point, and
The most successful bowlers
were May and Shane Wame,
who claimed two wickets
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Richard Evans •
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IN MANY respects, it wa*
guinfiessentudly a British rac-'
•ng scene, belonging to York.
Ascot, or SSSE&mm
sumrter afternoon. With, nun
clouds still hovering over the
ractorarse, Angus Gold, the
ver y Engfel? racing manager
employed by Hamdan ^G-
"“““nfi stepped forward to

recmip thn n mw. _■ r.

ne lands famous Cup victory

iciUAxte . . • r I ■!■ _1_• ■*■

a horse, which teamed his
2®“ “P'Nwnarisers Warren
rim, carried thcowner*s ubiQ-

so togp ood .

2, Pads Larw

Barm

Ransom {23th), GoW
i«i.shi*.2Cat 1 w

uitous blue and white silks to a
lairkHis victory.

But nothing about Jeune’s-
16-1 success in the Melbourne
Cup at Flemington yesterday
belonged to foe “Poms”. The
victoiy by the .former Geoff
Wragg coh was as Australian
as Waltzing Matilda"; as
comprehensive a triumph for
Australian training methods
as the historic winoy Vintage
Crop 12 months earlier had ’
advertised; the. contrasting
preparation given to Euro¬
pean horses.

After finishing thirteenth of
14 only ten days earlier when
sent off a warm favourite far
the Cox Plate at Moonee
Valley, .many British trainers
would not have countenanced
a crack at the Gup, especially
as the handijulling six-year-
old had never raced over two
miles andwas far fre n i certain
to get the trip.. ;

To make matters worse, he
had appeared m o re interested
in the mares and fillies at
Mxmee Valley rather than.
running at speed.

David Hayes, one of Austra¬
lia’s top young trainers, was..

1 ' Harris salutes the crowd after his Melbourne Cup triumph on Jeune. Photograph: Mark Baker

undeterred. “I just worked the
horse harder. After foiling in
toe Cox Plate I trotted him on
the Tuesday and worked him
hard on the Thursday.' He
fired in the McKinnon Stakes
bn Saturday [where he wore
blinkers and finished second].
1 then worked the horse over
nine furlongs on Monday. 1
wanted to keep toe work going
so he would settle."

Yesterday, toe blinkers were
replaced by “pacifiers”, which
look like blinkers but consist
of gauze shielding the horse's
eyes to make him relax. The
sti ffpr^r ation and change

settled in the fast-run race arri
concentrated.

The length and three-quar¬
ter-victory completed a memo¬
rable start to toe Melbourne
spring festival fin- Hayes, who
on "Saturday sent out the
Robert Songster-owned Blevic
to win the Victoria Derby:
Jetme’s success was also a
fitting reward for Wayne Har-

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ris who gained the ride after
his regular rider, Shane Dye,
opted to partner the unplaced
Coach wood.

Harris, aged 33, was stable
jockey to Kevin Prendergast in
Ireland in 1990 before return¬
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Jeune has not always been
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in Australian raring history.

The victory also rewarded
toe derision of Hamdan AJ-
Maktoum to buy Jeune from

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American owners.

While he celebrated his
second Cup success after
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have played its part in a
lacklustre performance.

Sluggishly away. last year's
winner was never travelling
well for Michael Kinane. “I
was never happy and my only
hope was if they all fell in a
hole in front of me. He was
always struggling." Vintage
Crop finished seventh, beaten
almost seven lengths.

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401 ORP GtWFAR 11 mjeor £S) D Etawrti 11-1M2 PHoky 96

402 12-3 6R2NHlllRAm£518JF.G) P Hobbs 8-11-7. Psto Hobbs 98

403 4-43 MAN OF MYSTERY 18 (W.EL5J N Twean-ttaws 8-11-2

JOsboms 96

404 34-6 HUWALX32(D.&SJR Cuts6-11-0_Dibits 94

405 243- S>MEY 190 (D.G) J iertuns 6-10-12_Bftwsl 96

405 123- YORKSHflE GALE 200 (D.G.S) J GHtad 8-10-6 N WKwsoo Ks
7-4 GrsntaD ftrtfc, M Man 01 Myauy. 4-1 YoKsUe Gat. 5-1 rttofe, 10-1
SpMy. 16-1 GftOta.

3.45 EVBHN6 STANDARD EROS DASH NOVICES
CHASE (£3,655:2m 41110yd) (9)

501 153- CUNNMGHAMS FORD 201 (F5) 0 Sbowod 6-11-0

Mr A Haney (7) -

502 W- CYPRUS 375 (F.6) Miss J Doyk 6-11 -0_S Curran (5) -

503 (SO- DUHALL0W LODGE 224 (6£) D Mchrism 7-11-0

Mr G Hopi (5) SS

504 -U52 DUNDBPflMCE4KBoky6-11-0_NWMamsoiS

505 2PP- FACTOR TBt 244 (G) Mbs H Kn^n 6-11-0_J Osborne SB

506 52- FOX ON TIC RUN 200 A Tamil 7-11-0_ SMeMbB -

507 ITALIAN MANG Uaries-Jaas6-11-0_BPmnl -

508 32-P ROAD TO FAME 11 DGanUtO 7-11-0_G UptDO 90

509 1P43 LADY BUNIMG13 (F) Hss B Sandert 7-10-9.. M ffleftads 77

7-4 Cuu lr gl iaa. Fad. 7-2 Dinks Prtace. 4-1 DriaHat LoOge. 6-1 Fax On Ttu
Ru>. 8-1 Rort To Fame. i2-i Facia Ten. 14-1 Laly Bufeo. 16-1 Mtars

Quick Ransom's run was
even more disheartening, giv¬
en his ideal preparation. He
was beaten a full seven fur¬
longs out and had only one
horse behind him at the end—
the 400-1 outsider. Gold Sover¬
eign. Mark Johnston, his
trainer, was mystified- “I real¬
ly don’t know the answer. It
worries me because the run
was so out of character." The
horse will remain in Australia,
where he will be trained by
Lee Freedman.

Cliveden Gail, who finished
one place in front of Quick
Ransom, “was never in toe
race." Willie Carson, his jock¬
ey, raid.

An inquest into a European
whitewash is nothing new and
underlines toe task facing
horses which travel thousands
of miles in pursuit of raring’s
premier pri 2 es. Do not be
surprised if toe next one is
conducted in a week’s time
after the Breeders’ Cup at
Churchill Downs.

Barathea
limbers
up in cold
climate

From Juuan Muscat

IN LOUISVILLE

A BITTERLY cold morning
greeted Barathea and Only
Royale as they stepped out for
their first glimpse of toe
racetrack at Churchill Downs.
Kentucky, yesterday. With a
wind-chill factor forcing tem¬
peratures down to 21 degrees,
toe first arrivals among Brit¬
ain’s 13-strong Breeders’ Cup
challenge could hardly have
felt more at home.

Barathea, described by his
trainer. Luca CumanL as “one
of toe best horses I’ve ever
had". looked in good spirits
during a gentle canter on the
dirt trade. The colt is dearly
unperturbed by the slight
knock to the shin he sustained
on a taxing 17-hour voyage.

Nap: CORNER BOY
(1 JO Haydock Park)

Next best: Martha's Son
(230 Haydock Park)

which delivered him to the
track on Sunday morning.

As Barathea and Only Roy¬
ale loosened their limbs, and
White Muzzle completed a
six-furlong gallop on turf, toe
remainder of the British chall¬
enge boarded a plane 3,000
miles away at Stansted.

Due in last night they vriD
spend today in quarantine
before testing the racetrack
for the first time tomorrow
morning — only 48 hours
before the big day. The
French contingent by con¬
trast reached Churchill
Downs yesterday afternoon.

The late departure of toe
bulk of Britain’s challenge
has been interpreted here as
an additional hurdle to what
is already a formidable as¬
signment The majority of
Lochsong’s Sprint opponents
have been ensconsed at the
track for more than a week.
Experience of the Churchill
Downs dirt surface is a defi¬
nite asset

D Wayne Lukas, the Cali¬
fornia-based trainer, put the
European task in perspective
when he said: “We have put
the emphasis on the Breeders'
Cup since July. It is a champ¬
ionship event You cant just
rock along: you need to peak
for toe day. Otherwise, the
competition is just too tough."

4.15 HIGGS HIGH FLYER HANDICAP HURDLE

(£3.428:2m) (6)

601 F5-5 ARABIAN BOU) 12 (D.F.GS) N Haidnai 6-12-0

MAFtoaeraM 98

GQ2 54/ HASHAfl 594 (CDfl D Bondi 6-11-4-Pflotey -

603 106- UAIBTS208 (D.GS) N Cafcgtar7-11-0-RCssspSxa 89

604 11-6 SQURE SILK 12 JD.GS) A Tamil 5-10-12_S Mctleta ffl

605 1-14 MUGGER 7 (D.BF.F) G Haroaod 6-10-10_M Pares 92

6D6 IP-3 CHAPEL OF BARRA513 (D.&S] PHobta 5-10-3 IVtar Hobbs 86

5-2 Squire sra. 7-2 Anton Bold. On*l (H Boras. 4-1 Mulrto. 5-1 Manare.
7-1 F&BT.

COURSE SPECIALISTS

TRAMERS: K Baley. 9 nkrac kon 35 rumn. 25.7V N Haodason.

17 hurt 67.2S.4V D Mcfem 12 Irani 56.214%; Ms H Kntfs. 6
Sun 2B. 21.4V 0 3*™u«L ID knm 51.19.6V
JOCKEYS: N WN bauson. 7 whiner; (rum 32 rides, 219V M A
HtgaanL 7 ham 36. 194%; Paa Hotte. 6 hum 3i. 194V J
Osborne. 21 hum 112.1B.6V M RretenE. 5 Horn 42. tl JV

Blinkered first time

HAYDOCK PARK 200 Fonma' s Sor
Golden Savannah UTTOXETSt 1 20
Call The King, Ftaever Sfrnang

Smith 300
■Might. 220

I^MTTQXETER

THUNDERER

1 SS) Bburg. 1.50 KabayiL JL2G Tejano Gold. 2.50
Touneen Prince. 3.20 Merlins Wish. 3.50 Henry
Cone.

GOING: GOOD _SIS

1.20 ST M0DWEN NOVICES HURDLE

(£1,987:3m 110yd) (14 runners)

1 P33- CALLERDSE 203 T Fonfef 7-10-11.

_wuarean

2 CHACERSHPNTaiSDE-Daria5-lD-ll- DBitogrttr

3 0-06 C0MSHTUTHBJ3HT 8 (V) H Kmsagh 6-10-11 „. M Brenosn

4 2-36 G0LDOIMADJAMB016 FtonftB 8-10-11-JLakfcr

5 D- KEAIB 366 P HobOs 5-10-11-GMcCoot

6 2P-P fiEAMUNCH 11 R Jutes 6-10-11-TWal

7 P-00 PRETTY BOV GEORfX IB K CUloOud 5-1D-11.. DW»(5)

8 F10- UMJJCKYRKSOME 186(G)MuDHitae5-10-11. JFTtaer

9 4-12 WASHNGTON HEIGHTS 32 (P C Mam 5-10-11. RDunwoodr

10 5-2 ELBURG 21 R Hoad 4-10-10_Uffietanta

11 46-2 S0UTMANSPHM6S 33 Me VIM 4-10-10- AThorfiffl

12 4- CORN BOW 327 J CnuM 5-10-6-WHonpInys

13 000- MBS NOSEY OATS 193 K Bote 6-10-6 _ Mmdacti Wy (7)

14 flf- MY TURN NEXT 3B6K Hooo 6-1IF6—-GatyLyons

7-2 Cadtrasa, 9-2 Htafttapton HtieMs. 5-1 Bhig. 7-1 Ctacs's h*. 6-1
Sutonan Sorinp. 12-1 CanctoUfidigta. l*-1 IWufe Fw Sara. My Tan Ned.
16-1 Piety Boy Gasp. 20-1 (ten.

1.50 HOUGHTON VAUGHAN HANDICAP HURDLE

(£2,614:2m 41110yd) (8)

1 1P0- KABAYH. 145F (G£) C Egenoa 5-12-0-R Dmnody

2 iar ALTBBNATOI520 (ffliWaitw5-11-4GUcCourt

3 /ZJ- KW0KD37FBLS)K Huso 6-11-2-M Hastgan

4 0411 DOOLAfl 18 (B.tBf.B.S) P Dated 7-11-0— APUcCoy(5)

5 141- EA5THTN PLEASURE 159 (B.C0.S) W Clay 7-10-12 DBK Ctay

6 56-0 FOX CHAPU 7 (ODASTR Jutes 7-10-11— G Tommy (7)

7 BZ1- PRMQ RGUO 25F (B.C.S) kfiss L Sidtafl 4-10-10. A TtartbSl

8 004- BURN BROKE Iff (VJ7.F.G.S) L Uay4-Jana B-1W

D DiUif nils

54 Dote. 4-1 Primo Rgfe. 9-2 Xteyri. 5-1 Ktoota. 5-1 Atasraun, Eastern
PteJMe. 12-1 otoec.

COURSE SPECIALISTS

TRAMERS: M Pipe. 41 winter: tarn 127 iubbs. 32.3%: C Egertw.

4 tom 13.3&8V T Fate. 12 (nm 40. 30.0V P Cfceestroaflh. 3
hnai12.SJ)%:M&adstod(.31nim14.21.44:)ni«Bto(>-lSiies. 12
tom 57.21.1%.

JOCKEYS: R Duanofr. 32 wbmas torn 132 rida. 244%: M
Harten, 3 tom 13, fi.1%: G McCoui. 11 tom 70. 157%; D
GaCetf«. 7 bon 51.117V L Httwy, 4 torn 30,13 3V

RACING 45

THUNDERER

1.45 fvor's Flutter. 2.15 LeotartL 2.45 Persian View.
3.15 Greenhai Raffles. 3.45 Cunninghams Ford. 4.15
Squire Silk.

The Times Private Hand ican par's top rating:

2.45 COURT MASTER.

GOING: GOOD TO SOFT _SS

1.45 FIESTA MAGAZINE NOVICES HURDLE

(£2,301:2m 5f) (B runners)

101 546- BEAUREPAIRE190 R Mnei 6-10-10_.... S Esrtt 67

IIC DP-0 MG BADWOf 7BPearw6-UHO-RRwfe 62

IK 0-34 CHARGED 14 (BB P HoMk 5-10-10-PteHoSOS 7B

104 MM EVBt FLOW 7 I toer 5-10-ID__ JChdoma ~

105 520- IVOR'S FLUTTER 1BF D E&rtffl MO-10-PHWy S

106 JACK THE ID Mrs L Tayta 5-10-10.-P Wart (7) -

157 LUCKY DOLLAR K BaHey 6-10-10._N Wfensan -

106 20-J R0MAUT0 ISF U Btantert 4-10-ID_MARngnM 66

4-6 fin's Raw. 3-1 Chanted. 5-1 lirty Dotar. B-1 Bsansare, Ronofilo. 14-1
Ewnnow. 20-1 oMtS

THUNDERER
1.10 Now You

1.10 Now Young Man. 1.40 Royal
Glenugie. 3.40 Kushbaioo. 3.10 A
Idlne. 4.10 Portonia.

il Vacation. 2.10
Atherton Green.

GOING: GOOD TO FIRM _

1-10 RADIO BORDERS AMATEUR RIDERS
MAIDEN HURDLE (£2,478:2m 6111 Oyd) (10 runners)

1 -22P DALESOE 6 WEXrtfey 6-11-7_C Bonner (7]

2 -P63 HAfflXYA!8®rHBi)ZBJUpsai6-11-7-TByrofi

3 6CP- TO BAY HARDLY330SCtadw*7-11-7_DPater P

4 ODD- JUMPWG CACTUS 226 5 Pritandritfi 5-11-7-RHakfS)

5 OM NOWYOUNGMAN33MreASwnt»*Ml-7 CMSVW5O10

6 -044 QUARTZ HU. 16 0 Lane 5-11-7_A teens 0

7 500- DQUT PWCE5 226 W SrtCl 9-11-2-MCofen0

B 00-6 GYMCRAK CYRANO 18 NOanWian 5-11-2

Mss CMrate (7)

9 3 NELLS BHAE 23 IQIRFtey 7-11-2-Mis A Fate

ID 52-4 QUSI BUZZARD ffiEWeyma 6-11-2-JBftymes (7)

5-2 (MkMb. 7-2 Hardly MafieM. 4-1 Nn Ysung Man. 5-1 fete Bate 6-1
(been Buart. 6-1 Quart HA, 20-1 Gymoafi Cyan. 25-1 oBm

1.40 HENNESSY COGNAC NOVICES CHASE

(£043:3m If) (5)

1 1101 ROYAL VACATION IB KLF.fi) 6 Uam 5-11-7_J Cabte

2 32-4 BULA HUOAY S k (Bki 9-11-2__T Read

3 3-22 LEADING PROSPECT 26 (G.5) Us J GoafeOtw 7-11-2

BSunv

4 P6-6 SNOOK P0WT14 D L*m 7-11-2_Ur A Mamas

5 PM SB LADY 33 J OarUon 6-10-11_KJoteai

M UsafeQ Pmato. W Royal Worilav. 6-1 BOsNutar. ID-1 Snoot PoinL 25-1
Sta Lady

2.1 0 MIDDLEMA5 OF KELSO SCOITISH
BORDERS TROPHY

(3-Y-O hurdle: £4.104:2m 110yd) (8)

1 1213 GLENUG& 4 (D.F) G Uoare 11-6_ N Batty

2 5321 MYTTOfrS CHOKE 7 (DJ) A BaUey 11-6-Ttet

2 5321 MYTTOFTS CHOICE 7 (D/) A BaUey 11-6-Ttet

3 BEYDH0 THE STARS 460FG Snfe 10-12-KJohnsm

4 3 DOUBLE DANCER42 DewSmltfi 10-12_PNhm

5 6 FRENCH 21 T DyeMD-12_— N DouM*r

6 GRAWtalAN 38ff D Uofla 10-12_D J Mortal:

7 AIBSS1A47F UnS Bradbuna 10-7_ RMirphy

8 UP THE UARUOS B9F D RnMtsoa 10-7_MRrtlcson

2-1 MytUTi Once. 1H Gtape. 7-2 Dato Damn. 4-1 Fundi. 12-1

Artnese. 14-1 Gontnan. 40-1 Beyond Tv Stats, 50-1 Up The Mariners.

2.40 PAT deCLERMDNT CHALLENGE CUP
HANDICAP CHASE (£5,095:2m Gf 110yd) (4)

1 -402 KUSHBAIO014 (CD.BF.F.G) C Rater 9-11-10_B Storey

2 F-21 CHARLOTTE'S EMMA 18 (CJ&S) Mb J GoodfrSc* 7-11-2

TJerks (3)

3 4-42 2AM BS IB (F.6J>) W Reed B-iO-IO_TRsed

4 BP-U CANTGFTOUT 62 (5) C Pmney 8-10-0__ J CaSaglHn

11-8 Ktdrinhw, 7-4 Chateta's Emma. 9-4 Zan Bee. 25-1 Csagauul

3.10 RAGS TO RICHES HANDICAP HURDLE

(£2,355:2m 110yd) (5)

1 -234 BOLDEN ISLE 12 iD.f.G) J Ctaten 10-12-0.. B Storey

2 B4-4 TAPATCH 1IF (DJ.G) G Man 6-11-9_J Ulatfan

3 4013 VAIN PWICE 18 (CtLBF.F.Gj) NTrMa 7-11-6_P Mien

4 -F31 ATHBTTON QiEfN i:iF {D.F.S} J Qom 4-10-12- TReed

5 331 BACK BEFORE DAWN 26 (D£^) P Motelti 7-10-5 TJaris (3)
9-4 AOetoi Been. 114 Baa Bekn Dam. 7-S VUn fttnee. 5-1 Taoodl B-!
Golden too.

3.40 CHESTERTON TROPHY

(Handicap chase: £4,045:2m 10 (5)

1 -3U4 S0H9E MQ 21 (CD J.Gj) Me 5 Bradtwne 9-12-6

RMnhy(7)

2 2-53 TEBRBIE EEL 11 (CDJJ) Mbs M Rentay 9-11-6._P Nmn

3 1-11 Baa* 42 (COFAS) P Moteto 9-11-3_T Jerks (3)

4 F3-2 Cam SONG 14 (CD,(LSI W Deed 7-10-11_TRsed

5 -433 SILVER HAZE 20 PXBPJF5) J tttada 10-1041_DRym (7)

7-4 BakSne. 9-4 Terrto GeL 3-1 Ceitle Song. 6-1 SB® Kara. 16-1 Sonsie Mu

4.1 0 LEVY BOARD HANDICAP HURDLE

(£2,460*. 2m 61110yd) (7)

1 331- PDHTHMA156 (FAS) Mis M Rmtav 10-11-10 — G Las (7)

2 3P6- TR0DDQS 226 (F.G) Ms S Aten B-10-13_ 0 WKnm

3 12-P MANGROVE MET 6 (F.G) PU&Oeib 6-10-5_ TJenks(3)

4 FB-0 HAZEL LEAF 41 (CD.G.S) R McDonald 6-10-0-R Hodge

5 PM MYITflCAL STORM 25 (G.S) C Pmray 7-1D-Q— J Odaghan

6 DRO- JUKE BOX B61Y 204 (rjJJotnsxi 6-10-0_S Tayta (7)

7 RH LOVING (tt®l 32 (C.S) Mrs 2 Ereen MD-0 _ A Lanodl (3)
5-4 Ptrorta. 4-1 ktanpm Mu. 6-1 Myncal Saam. 7-1 t rowan 12-1 Ham
LaA 20-1 JvU> Ba 6iy. iwring amen.

COURSE SPECIALISTS

TOUNBTS: Mis U Reaeley. 37 «unas tow 105 Mnai. 34 iV Mrs
J GnodeUcw. 10 kem 36, 26GV N TnUa. & tom 26. 2S.1V R
McDortd. 3 tom 15. 2D0V: P UasMi IS tom 100. 18£* J
Jotnsoi. 8 tom 50.160%.

JOCKEYS: P teen. 45 ewrnos tom 122 ndes. 369V fiDounWy. 23
tom S7. 26.4V Ata A Farrell 5 tom 1 a 167V 5 Sarny. 24 bom
150. T6V D J MrtoJL 5 from 37. 115V Mr R Hale, 3 tom 27.
111V

2.20 TMS NOVICES HANDICAP HURDLE

(£2,656:2m) (11)

1 3-13 TEJANO GOUT 12 (D9F9) P Bradley 4-1T-10- W Hunfenys

2 P332 SYLVAN SABRE T2 (CDJ) KMB]jar 5-11-6-ASSmB)

3 2/2- HOSTILE ACT 93FK Italian 9-11-5-RDumoody

4 3/4- SB.VERDA12 TO 382FK ttm 7-11-0-M HuiJgan

5 5-04 FOREVER SHMENG 11 (B) 5 Mafia 4-10-12 Cms Wte (7)

6 2003 PULMCORT6(B)MbMJ anes4-10-9-APMcCoyffl

7 PIV3 BARQAEH 18 V t&roctough 7-10-5-DBrSJgwatti

8 HM RUMPUS 6 C Broad 4-TP-l— --WMare&n

9 0661 SHE BAR 7 (B.G) M ftvai 4-10-0 ftel-JRy»

10 0-00 CALL THE KWG IB (B| K Cfedurtuck 5-70-0-DWaHl®

n PM SALRtQST 22 J Pates 6-HKJ-FLetaiyp)

3-1 Sytte Stars. 7-2 Tetano Gold, 5-TPuknon. 7-1 Hosia* Ad. B-1 Shod*
Fa. Side Bar. 12-1 Foreva SNnetag. 14-1 uteri.

2.50

IMS HANDICAP CHASE (£3,087:2m 51) (8)

1 12-4 MOfTEUKR 18 (DF.&S) P ttftbs 6-12-H-G McCall

2 P5-3 SDUT1STN MUtSTREL 14 (DJ£5) P Cheestaamb 11-11-12

R DaiMody

3 12-1 TQUREEN PRINCE 32 (CD£.S) Uss H KnqjW 11-11-9

MrJMPtehard

4 54-P LALMJRYMAN 13 (G5) U Bradstnck 11-11-2-L Itarvey

5 3P-2 AWJERMATT IT (DS JMactie 7-11-1-W Martel

6 311- D0NT TELL THE WIFE 190 (CD.B.S) Mn D Haine 6-10-6

. D Bridgwater

7 21-2 CALL fiE EARLY 12 (F.G) 0 Breaon 9-10-0-M Bmnan

6 4035 M0ICH) DO 5 (CDJ.G.S) Mbs S Hfltuo 8-10-0— 0 GNbgfasr

9-4ToureenPrim*. 7-7DomTefiThe Wit.9-2 AnrisansL 6-1 MOMfe. 8-1
Laundiyiran. Call Me Early, io-i umen

3.20 EAST STAFFORDSHIRE NOVICES CHASE

(£2,814:2m) (7)

1 -11U MERUNSWSH34(0JFflMPs»5-11-i0— RDonwoedy

1 -11U MERLINS WISH 34 fD,BF,f) M P*e 5-11-10— RDmOOdy

2 P3- CROPREDYLAD285 (f)JWa*er 7-10-12-GMcCoot

3 04F- MAGHXAH BAY 225 Ma J Priam 6-10-12--- W Itarnnn

4 22/ NADIAD 551 (F.G) D McCain B-10-12-D Safefter

5 53-2 PETMER 28 (5) K Buta 7-10-12-DBtMpwtor

6 2500 T1NN3L0US 21 P DaRon 9-10-12-A P McCoy (S)

7 003/ VlflLL FT LAST 1304 N Bteage 6-10-7--W Humphreys

44 Martas Mstu 4-1 Pamer. 6-1 NaSad. B-1 Maseilaa Bay. 12-1 Croprefly Lad.
14-1 Tooths. 50-1 Will IL3SL

3.50 EBF NATIONAL HUNT NOVICES HURDLE

(Qualifier £2,082:2m) (8)

1 000- B0K SETTffl 242 S Mete 4-n-0-CMsWetai(7)

2 OflJ- CLOSE OF PLAY 242 NTwBtoMJaws 5-11-0- DBddO«aar

3 O- FBKMG MASTER 210 tas I MdQe 5-11-0-LHtatay

4 244- HEMTY CONE 179 3 CMsttan 5-71-0-G McCoot

5 HJO K»CAD£ 56 BCanwcae 4-11-0—-UrJCarUdae

6 OPP- OLD TCKLERTON 182 D UcCan 5-11-0-DGtejpW

7 32- THRSPHL0S0PHB1S1B6T Forster 5-11-0— R Donroody

8 21B- QUEBWORD BELLE 201 (G1 Miss H KnioW 4-10-9- R Martey
5-2 Ham Cess. 3-7 Oise CD Play. 5-1 Tins Ptatosnttn. 6-1 hradt 6-1
Queentad Belie. 10-1 Fenng Mate. 12-1 Btat

Newcastle

Gdn^ good io 30tl

1.15 (erj 1. Inzar n Ouina 2-5 tart. 2.
Seeks Vade (4-11.3. Fantasy Raong (7-1V 5
ran KI, II P Cole Tale- £120: £1 10.
Cl.ia EF:£1S0.CSFE2.«

IAS m) 1. Ftemtaxo (j wwor. 2.
Cool Steel {20-1): 3. Sant Amgo (14-1): a.
Euro Rebel (lO-lj. Doddtagion Flyer 7-i
lav. 20 ran u mi J Bothek. Tote- in 9 60:
£7 40, £4 90, £3.80, E13Q DF- £21600
TfO. £516.60. CSF: £28729 TncasL-

£4,110.43.

Z15 (im 4i S3yd)l. New ton (Data Gtoson.
7-1): 2, Shadow Leader (4-1). 3. Sharp
Fafcon 1100-30 lavj 9 ran. Donl
Answer met 2H. nk. E Wfeymes. True
C1090; £390. £1 40. £1 60. DF £3320.
Too. E22J50. CSF. £34 ia TicasL £10220
2.45(1m2f32yU)1.BalyiantBr(JQisnn l 9-
1);2,CWyLadl7-1 lavl.3.SbbaUp(14-1):
4, Lam Fort (33-1). 27 ran. 3, 2Ss». H
CofinflddQfi. T«a. £14.10. £270. £2.50.
£3.10. ^40. DF: £2130. Tno. £SS.30.
CSF: 57231 Tncwh £82858.

3.15 (7D 1. Madera ij Y/Baver. 7-2]: 2
tt«aD (i 1-2): 3. Oneotiheddones r-i raw)
13 ran. II. hd M Suu!?. Tae. KSO: £1 80.
£1.70. £110 DF- £750. CSF. £24 44.

145 (3) 1, Takadou (D Harrison, 6-1). Z
PBlscegte Touch (IO-1). 3. fidghi Moody
(8-2). Inherent Made 5-4 lav. 13 can. u ,l
m. Miss L Sddrtl Tore £710 £230.
£330. £1 SO DF. £54.40. CSF. £6532.
Jackpot nu won (pool of 08,548.40
carried toward to Kempton Park today).
P^acopoc £12a7a Quadpot £125,10.

Exeter

Qoingrgood

1 30 (2m 2f) 1. Encana Un Pbu (J Lower. 9-
4): 2 Mouse Bird (1B-T): 3, Bedawi (06-11.
General Crack 2-1 lav. 15 ran. id. B>. M
Proa IMS- £4.40: £210. £220. £910. DF'
£15130 CSF. £3933
200 (2m 3t 110yd hdtaj 1. Kindie's DaDght
(J Osborne. 9-11: 2. Nuns Cone (14-1): 3.
Marine Soaety p-2 law. a. GateiUe 112-1)
18 ran. 3H. 2H IfcsH KnohL To».
£5 60. £1.10. £6.80. £200. £340 DF'
El 79. TO. Tno. £98.70 CSF: £124 2a
Tncast £596 39

230 {2m 2f) 1. TravMo (J Osborne. B-n
lav): Z Abwiom s Lady (5-1): 3, Deep
Sensation (11-2). 6 ran. 3119. N Hender¬
son Tot* £130. £1.10, £230. DF. E3.50.
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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 21994

Bailey loses
his lengthy
battle with
knee injury

By Stuart Jones, tennis correspondent

CHRIS Bailey, the former
British No 3. confirmed yes¬
terday that he has beat
obliged to heed medical advice
and retire premarurely at the
age of 26. Speaking at the
opening of the national tennis
championships at Telford,
where he has twice been the
runner-up, he revealed that he
had no option.

He was told last month that
his right knee, which has been
surgically repaired five times
since 1990. can no longer
adequately support him in his
chosen profession. Had he
continued, after undergoing
yet another operation, he
would almost certainly have
been crippled for life.

His career has been under
threat since, as a 21 -year-old.
he snapped his anterior cruci¬
ate ligament He had already
signalled his promise by
reaching the quarter-finals at
Queen's on grass, his favour¬
ite surface, and climbing to
126th in the world rankings. It
was to be his peak.

He did rise to national
prominence, though, after he
had fully recovered from the
serious injury. At Wimbledon
last year he held a match point
against Goran Ivanisevic,
then the world's No 5. but
irreversible damage was
being inflicted by the cumula¬
tive effect of cartilage prob¬
lems.

Further arthroscopy, con¬
ducted after he had been
beaten by Jeremy Bates in last
year’s national final, enabled
him to compete again at
Wimbledon, but his mobility
was severely restricted. Last
month he was given virtually
no room to manoeuvre by his
surgeon. David Dandy, in
Cambridge.

Five years before he imag¬
ined he would hang up his
racket, he is considering a new

career, preferably in the me¬
dia. He has also had informal
talks with Billy Knight, the
Davis Cup rap tain, on the
prospect of joining die Lawn
Tennis Association as a orach.

Although he approves of the
present system, in which the
leading players train in
squads, he believes chat the
most talented would benefit
from working with individual
coaches. He himself consid¬
ered “breaking away” in 1989
with Nigel Sears.

Bailey's equivalent among
the British women, Jo Dune,
was on the verge of leaving, if
not retiring, early as well.
Seven times the former nat¬
ional champion, the 34-year-
old had originally been in the
same quarter of the draw as
Clare Wood, the holder and
top seed.

She was moved into the
place which had been reserved
for Monique Javer, the sixth
seed, who offered no reason
for her belated withdrawal
Dune. once ranked the
world’s No 5 but recently dog¬
ged by a variety of injuries,
was a set and 1-3 down to Sara
Tse. from the Isle of Man.

She eventually went
through to the second round
but a couple of the women's
seeds did not. Mandy Wain-
wright die fifth, who reached
the semi-final last year, suc¬
cumbed to Lurie Ahl, a Devo¬
nian ranked marginally
higher than her in the world.
6-3. *6.6-3.

Claire Taylor, the seventh,
shared the centre court at this
year's Wimbledon with
Martina Navratilova. Her fate
yesterday, m more humble
surroundings and against a
less auspicious opponent, was
the same. She went out to
Loma Woodroffe. 6-3.5-7,6-1.

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Venus Williams, 14, warms up before
making a successful debui on the profes¬
sional tennis circuit in the Bank of the West
Classic in Oakland. California, yesterday.
Williams beat Shaun Stafford, her fellow
American and 12 years her senior. 6-3.6-# in

the first round. “This is very dose to the
happiest day of my life." Williams said. “I
wasn’t sure what to expect It was a lot more
fun than I thought it would be” Williams
faces the top seed, Arantxa SAnchcz Yicario,
of Spain, today. Photograph: Blake Sell

S Africans
prepared
to gamble
for tough
assignment

By David Hands

RUGBY CORRESPONDENT

IF THE South African rugby
union touring team's colours
are to be lowered outside the
internationals, it will surely be
this week or not at alL Tonight
they face Neath at the GnoII
and on Saturday, Swansea,
tiie Heineken League leaders.

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different combinations, at
bade mid in the forwards.

The last touring side to visit
Neath. Bob Dwyer's Austra¬
lians of 1992, reserved an
uncomfortable welcome but
Neath have never respected
reputations, nor do they
believe that the South Africans
are guilty of over-zealous play.

“Good. hard, rucking is
something, to'be appreciated
as a vital skill of the game,”
David Pickering. . Neath’s
coach, said. “Kicking is differ¬
ent There is no place in the
game for that But 1 have no
complaint with legitimate
melting.”

Neath repose considerable
faith in their youngsters.
Arwel Thomas at stand-off
half and Lee Davies on the
wing, while eight of the XV
who lost 16S to the Austra¬
lians will be playing. The
South Africans pair Joel
Stransky and Kevin Putt at
half bade for tiie first time on
tour, while Gary Tefchmaim
makes his fourth , appearance
in the bade row.

The sponsors of the tour.
CIS, also support England’s
divisional ..championship
which begins on November 19
when the champions, the
South-West play London at
Bristol and North meet the
Midlands at Otley. Steve
Ojomoh will play at flanker
for South-West at the behest of
the England management

NEATH: P Thorbum; C rtggs, J Btod, H
Wbodand. L Davies; A Thames, R Jones:
EMxi Wfems. Bame Wtta ra . J Omes, A
KerrDwy. G Lteueflyn, C WysO, C Scott. S
WDama.

SOOTH AFRICANS: G Johnson; C
Badenhorut, P Muter, B Venter, J ORrtec J
Sttansky. K Putt P du Rare#. J Oaten I
Hatting. C Strauss, J Wiese, H Heitngh, E
van der Bergh, G Toichmann
Referee: R Maason (Scotland).

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Mr K White of Hontuun, West Sussex, is tins
week's winner with 797 rated points. This score lifts his team. Sahwe
XV, to 250th place overall. He has Bucklon of Saracens I ISO points) and
Erickssonof London Scottish (150 points) to thank for the balk of his
score.

Mr White wins two cases of Courage beer and a fully-installed BT
satellite system. His nominated club is Sunallon, which receives five
cases of Courage Directors Bitter, a Courage Best England shirt and a
table for ten at the Courage lunch before England’s match against
Canaria at Twickenham on December 10.

With just one week of the competition to go, Mr J Non of Bristol
retains his slender lead of 90 points over Mr J Jones of Rickmansworth.
Hertfordshire, with Mr Gary Pierce in third place.

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on a Gameboy, and comderoed
nmgging .oW ladies a nd netting
away with it

Normality is such an nrmy riai
subject fortetevision documentary
that toe effect of last nights
TWttore lids (BBC2) was rather'
staggering. Fresh, funny and deft,
Ian Duncan’S Playing Out was set
hr Keighley, -West Yorkshire, and
“g»wed a day in ib&.Kfe of five
bpys (one with thfckspecsj,'
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These. bi^splajfed grandmother's
.footsteps without the aid of crack
chcame .th^ bwight cheap sweets
with their dinner money, they fed a
hars&wi&^ts of apple. It was like

finding out the past 40 years had
been adream.

True, bad foe anthropological
Opes been present with notebook
and penal they’d have noticed a
change in the language since
Denis MitchelL Instead of eeny-
meeny, it’s “Ip dip dog shit out
jumps piss!" And in die school
playground, the girls’ rendition of
“Take her by the lily-while hand”
has been replaced by a more
robust rhyme conducting “OohJ
Aah! I lost my bra! / I lost my
knickers in my boyfriend’s cart".
But as tiie Optes always argued,
it$ roughly the kune thing.

T hese kids were very funny.
Under a small, child-sized
railway arch, they waited
for a train m trundle overhead and
then screamed with hilarious gus¬
to. Andrew lobbed and kicked his
school bag, using it as a boonceless
football; bespectacled Mark
played contentedly with a slinky-

Lynne

Truss

spring on the stairs at home,
waldied by the dog who shared his
bed at night In Tony’s house, the
dog was a small scurrying Jack
Russell-type, like Eddie in Fraiser,
whose favourite spot was the bad;
of an armchair by die window.
Ignored, he was just pan of life’s
rich tapestry, like the dreadful
food.

"I tried to make a waffles
sandwich last night" said the

biggest boy. Barrie, as they made
their way to school in the chilly
morning; "five waffles in a sand¬
wich. I squashed it so all the fat
came out 1 still ate it like." “I had
ten slices of bread with raspberry
jam. brown sauce, red sauce,
vinegar, salt and lemon curd."
"Ooh. Gross."

Perhaps I’ve watched too much
television (I have, I do} but
personally, as a jumpy childless
person, I kept reacting to false
alarms in Playing Out —expecting
the whole thing to- turn abruptly
into tragedy. Potentially, ir was
Blue Remembered Hills mixed
with Casualty and Crimewatch
file, not to mention 999. “Jump!
Jump!" the others yelled to the kid
in glasses, while he hesitated on
top of a wall. “No, don't!” I yelled,
in response. (He jumped, and did
not land on the tines of an
upturned rake. He was quite OK,
in fact) After tea, the boys made a
camp fire under a tree Where they

fried sausages in a big pan.
pouring cooking oil from a bottle
and shrieking. "You’re on fire!".
And again, miraculously, nobody
died.

I t was easy to appreciate the
lack of seif-consdousness in
these kids when elsewhere,
last night's television was shining
a mirror up is own fundament
rather unattractively. An interest¬
ing Omnibus about self-portrai¬
ture and narcissism (BBCl) was
weakened by clever, ironic shots of
the film itself being made, while
Channel 4*5 Without Walls com¬
bined in its two segments a fast,
sparky analysis of television news
from Allison Pearson (presenting
her J'Accuse from a newscasters
desk, and shown beforehand in
front of a make-up mirror) and the
second episode of The Night Show,
a pleasant but intricate satire on
arts television, with in-jokes.
Television now takes itself so

seriously that it hires John Stalker
to solve real-life crimes on behalf of
the nation (Newtorfc First ITV) —
an alarming development that
should proceed no further. While it
was OK to let Sir John Harvey-
Jones solve industry, ire a damn
sight more presumptuous to say.
“This Hilda Murrell mystery has
gone on long enough! Call in John
Stalker, he’s famous. 1 ". Still, that’s
obviously how it happened. The
police handed over the Murrell
files. Stalker did some rather
lugubrious detecting, and the re¬
sult was that all those fancy
conspiracy theorists were trounced
by the force of plain (but spurious¬
ly mandated) common sense.
Phew, that’s all right then. No
collars were felt last night, but ire
obviously the next step. “I arrest
you on behalf of the viewing
public. You have the right ro a
make-up artist and expenses, and
anything you say may be rewritten
by scriptwriters."

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Shakespeare: The Animated Tales 2 - Richard III
8BC2.730pm

Screened as part of BBCZ’s Bard on the Box season,
this is the first in a new series of 30 -minine, animated
versions of Shakespeare's plays. If toe idea sounds
hideous, the results are often a pleasant surprise.
Tonighrs Richard lH from Russian director Natasha
Orlova achieves an eerie sophistication thanks to a
technique involving painting on glass, the angular
figures contrasting with fluid, rain-heavy skies.
Scripted by Leon Garfield, toe film is expertly voiced
by Antony Sher, still remembered for his spidery
portrayal of the villain for the RSC plus Eleanor Bron.
Tom Wilkin son and Alec McCowen as the narrator.
Future weeks will see animated versions of As You
Like It. Julius Caesar. Othello, The Winters Tale and
The Taming of the Shrew.

How Do They Do That?

BBCl, 8.15pm

A new series of die programme that celebrates human
ingenuity begins with a compilation of highlights from
the last season. The show has proved a hit with
viewers, who have not been shy about writing in with
questions. Tonight’s best-of-programme answers such
teasers as how presenter Desmond Lynam appeared
to jump through a helicopter and crash through the
studio roof: bow spqt-the-ball contests are set up; how
a psychologist has given new hope to victims of serious
team damage; and how admen got milk bottles to
dance. The new series will look at airliners' black
boxes, how a girt on life support continued breathing
after it was switched off and how a reporter tracked
down the terrorist known as The Jackal.

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finds dial life at home is in some ways more
frightening. A letter to toe father he has never seen
results in a cryptic but negative-sounding note back,
while his relationship with French girlfriend Cyrille
becomes suddenly complicated.

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months ago in which six people were killed after a
truck laden with crushed stone careered out of control
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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 21994

Argentinian says dignified farewell amid glare of publicity at Tottenham

Sugar brines down curtain on Ardiles

V—/ CJ-WS HARKS

By Russell Kempson

LIGHTS, cameras, action.
The world's media turned an
for OsvaJdo Ardiles yesterday
as the Tottenham Hotspur
manager signed off at White
Hart Lane. Dismissed by Alan
Sugar, the Tottenham chair¬
man. the night before, after
being summoned to Sugar’s
home in ChigweU. Essex,
Ardiles returned to N17 to
dose his traumatic 16 -month
He produced a. dignified
when necessary, diplo¬
matic display. Had his team

ARDILES FILE

Bom; Cttrdoba. Argentina. August 3,
1953

Playing career: Huacan. Argentina,
1970-1978 Tottenham Hot&pur ^A u-

1982-JarTisland Blackburn Rovers
(March 1988). FA Cup timet 1981,
Ueta Cup winner 1984. Queens Park
Rangers Aug 198&Jan 1989. Ar>

Una; 4? caps. World CXp winner IE
Managerial appointments: Swindon
Town. July 1989 (promoted to first
(fiwaon 1990 but stayed down because
of financial Irregularities). Newcastle
United, Match 1991: dismissed. Feb¬
ruary 1993. West Bromwich Albion. May
199? (prorrofad to fist division 1993}.
Tottenham Hotspur. June 1993, tfe-
rrussed. November 1994.

selections proved as capable
under pressure over the past
64 matches — they won only
20 of them — Sugar would not
have soured and Ardiles
would not have had to endure
the last rites amid such a
chaotic gathering. Yet he re¬
vealed his thoughts quietly
and concisely, without a hint
of bitterness at the manner of
his parting or the reasons
behind it

Yes, the continuing feud
between Sugar and Terry
Venables, Ardiles’s predeces¬
sor, had been difficult to
ignore: yes, the Football Asso¬
ciation’s fine. FA Cup suspen¬
sion and six-point penalty had
made his job harder. “I was
just a pawn in all the battles
that were being fought"
Ardiles said. No. he had never
considered resigning: no. he

Ardiles shares his thoughts on the end of his career as the Tottenham Hotspur manager with the world's media at a press conference at White Hart Lane yesterday

would not change his flam¬
boyant approach to football if
and when he reentered the
managerial jungle.

Ardiles. 42, realised his
position had become untena¬
ble after Tottenham's 30 de¬
feat against Notts County, the
bottom dub in the Endsleigh
Insurance League first divi¬
sion, in the Coca-Cola Cup last

Wednesday. Defensively, as in
many matches this season,
they were a shambles. “The
writing was on the wall after
that," he said. “This was when
my fate was derided. It was no
real surprise when it came.
But I still feel we were very
close to having a good team.
The dub and the squad is in a
much better state than when I

arrived." The 3-1 FA Carling
Premiership win over West
Ham United on Saturday
quickly became irrelevant “It
was satisfying to give the
supporters something,"
Ardiles said. “They have not
had much to cheer for quite a
Jong time. But the die had
already been cast for me. At
least you learn a lot about

yourself in situations like this.
I’m a lot tougher than I
thought! was. But it is not a
relief to be leaving. 1 wanted to
cany on fighting.”

Steve Perryman, 42, Ar-
diles’s assistant, takes over as
caretaker manager until the
end of the season. He declined
to be drawn on new players,
new tactics or his long-term

ambition. “1 am the caretaker
until someone says different¬
ly," he said. “I’m still very
disappointed to lose my boss,
my colleague and my friend.
He was great to work with.”

Sugar enticed Ardiles from
West Bromwich Albion in
June last year, with many
observers claiming it was
designed to appease the sup¬

porters in the wake of the
acrimonious exit of Venables.
It worked for a while until
Ardiks’s spending—die sign¬
ing of Gheorghe Popescu for
£29imIIion in September took
his outlay to £12.25 million —
was not matched by perfor¬
mances on the pitch. Relega¬
tion was only narrowly
avoided last season. Sugar did

not appear in the Bill Nichol¬
son Suite, where Ardiles deliv¬
ered his final thoughts, but
said in a statement: “It has
bear one of die most difficult
derisions of my life Over the
past few days, a lot of soul-
searchiztg and deep thought
has been applied. I win recall
forever Ossie’S dignity and
strength during a period in/,
which he was under constant 4 "
pressure and criticism."

Ardiles, who played, 315
games for Tottenham after
joining them m 1978, made
simflarfy respectful comments
about Sugar. "He can be a
difficult man but we can afi be
difficult at times. Bm from a
personal point of view, I Eke
him vesy much. He is honest,
direct and we worked together
extremely dosetef However,
the possfintityorSugar bring¬
ing in a specialist coach, to
hdp halt the Tottenham slide,
irked Ardiles.

"I would never accept some¬
thing like that" heiaua. “That
would be an fodktment of
everything I think about foot¬
ball. One or two names were
mjmtfoned but ray answer was
always ‘no’. I live and die by
my principles* by the way I
want my teams to play foot¬
ball, and this is what I did. I
am proud I did ft that way. I
did it my way." ..

Ferryman; the manager of
Brentford ami Watford before
joining Ardiles in July last
year, thus inherits the hottest
of football seats. His tempo¬
rary tide gu arant ees nothing
and, if anything, he-wure a
more emotional, haunted look
than Ardiles yesterday. The
odds are already bring
c hance d up for a fuH-time
successor, with Geny Francis,
disfllusioned and imderiricA
over his future at Quems Pare-
Raiders, the prime candidate.

Fior Ardiles, the months
ahead indude reading, golf
and giving up smoking. He
took up the dreaded-weed
again three weds ago, when
file signals were ominous. On
Monday night they proved
correct

Bilbao put paid to Newcastle’s dream

Kendall returns

Athletic Bilbao.1

Newcastle United.0

(agg 3-3; Bilbao win on
away goals)

From Rob Hughes

FOOTBALL CORRESPONDENT
IN BILBAO

NEWCASTLE United paid
the ultimate price, elimination
on the away goals rule, for
their tired, naive last 20 min¬
utes of the first leg of this Uefa
Cup second-round tie. when
they were beaten by a solitary
goal in the San Mames stadi¬
um last night They were lucky
to escape so tightly, for
Garicano missed a penalty
after Beresford had brought
down Suances seven minutes
from time.

The old port had trans¬
formed itself long before the
adrenalin surged cm the pitch,
it was a Bank Holiday, quieter
than a Suffolk Sunday until,
from mid-afternoon, the
streets began to bulge with
clamorous supporters, a red
tide that eventually blocked
every street, like dogged
arteries.

The fierce separatism that

drives this region was trans¬
lated into thrust and counter¬
thrust from the first whistle.
Bilbao simply surged at
Newcastle, with Larrainzar. a
player gambled with because
of a long-term knee injury,
produced a judicious through-
ball which Ziganda fractional¬
ly failed to connect with.

But this is Newcastle, and
there is nothing wrong with
the spirit of Kevin Keegan’s
team, nothing dampened by
the first loss of the season at
Old Trafford last Saturday.
They had young Watson at
centre forward, a player of
strength, perseverance and
sheer willingness to do his
best in an alien position on
foreign territory.

When Beresford broke
down the left, to be joined by
Lee, the confusion caused by
an eager dummy run from
Watson almost allowed
Beardsley in for a chance.
Beardsley arrived a split sec¬
ond too late, the bail shat
awkwardly off the glistening
turf, and the chance
disappeared.

But it was already a splen¬
did cup-tie. Lee was getting
through a prodigious amount

of work: what lungs he must
have, what morale and self¬
lessness. For he was here in
defence, here powering
through midfield, sometimes
with Basques, dressed in their
changed strip of blue, trying to
cling to his heels, and the
bursting into the penalty area.

Lee twice terrorised Juan

Valencia's goal. First,
Hottiger, adventuring for¬
wards, had linked with Fox,
and Lee’s towering header
landed on top of the bar;
moments after that, Beardsley
had escaped on the right and
swung the ball in. inevitably
for the foraging Lee to acceler¬
ate through, but he was not

Lee missed two first-half chances for Newcastle United

quite able to get hold of his
shot at full stretch.

Nevertheless, there was
guile and plenty of running
coming back at Newcastle,
obliging them to funnel back,
support one another, produce
the work ethic that has not
been associated with the brio
of Keegan’s team. Often,
Garitano, a playmaker with a
crafty left foot, was the instiga¬
tor, and often Ziganda, tall
and quick, was racing into
positions that stretched
Howey and Peacock to their
physical and mental limits.

In the 26th minute.

. Garitano had elegantly
wheeled away from Fox. and
guided the ball down the left
Ziganda powered through
with a thoroughbred's stride,
too swift by far for Peacock,
but when the centre forward
{Rilled the ball back from the
line, Smicek responded with
feline reflexes to claw the ball
into his chest

Ziganda. who had turned
the first game at St James’
Park, was full of invention, but
Howey in particular was the
defensive equal to him, al¬
though Howey was fortunate
when his backside got in the

way of
Mendiguren,
from e

a shot from
deflecting it
away nom goal from only
eight yards.

Another stroke of fortune
came directly on half-time,
when Tabuenka centred from
the left Smicek groped and
missed, Suances calmly head¬
ed foe ball bade, and Alkiza
once again shot a foot wide
from ten yards with the goal at
his mercy.

The pressure, and believe it
or not die.pace, was stepped
up by Bilbao. They laid siege
to Smicek's goal in the second
half, and just when it seemed
that the stubbornness of New¬
castle's defence would not be
breached, it was. The provider
was Alkiza with a marvellous
low ball between the centre
backs, and inevitably Ziganda
was through, his shot stroked
with the lot foot beneath the
body of the advancing
Smicek.

ATHLETIC BILBAO (4-3-1 -2): J Vafertta —
□ Tabuenka G Andmua A Kenvfta A
Lanazaual — I larrainzar {sub: J UnuUa.
32mn), R Garicano, R Menoouren — B
AMza — G Suances. J Ziganda'
NEWCASTLE UNTIED (4-1-&2): PSmfcek
- M Homger. D Peacock, S Hnaay, J
Boesfacd - P Albert — H Fax tair. M
Jeffrey, 7Z), R Lea S SeBera (gub: LGLaiK
58) — S Wason, P BaatMey.. • - .
Referee: AAmendoia (Rsty)-

HOWARD Kendafl, the far¬
mer Everton manager, has left
Xanthi, the Greek first divi¬
sion team, to go bade to
Rng ia n ri a spokesman said
yesterday that Kendall told the
club he was returning for
family reasons.

Kendall’s return is certain to
increase speculation that he

could be a possible successor
to Mike Walker, who succeed¬
ed Kendall at Goodison Park
in January. Everton are bot¬
tom of the FA Carling Pre-
miership without a victory tills
season. Kendall* second spdl
as Everton manager aided on
December 4 last yeat when he
resigned.

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8 Basic element (of larger
whole) (4]

9 Determined (8)

10 Ragged bey; hedgehog (6)

12 Entranced (4)

15 The motion is carried
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16 Spade's depth: projecting
strip of sand (4)

17 Medicine man (6)

19 Disgusting, repulsive (8)

21 Leap into water nightclub
(4)

22 Container ship (6)

23 Come to rest determine (6)

SOLUTtONTO NO 307

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3 Sports clothes and equip¬
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4 French IS panish mountains
(SI

5 Hazard (4)

6 Fashionable area in W Cen¬
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7 Be suitable (3)

11 Cruel (9)

13 Of the first age of the world
(9)

14 Sensory hairs of eg cat (8)

18 Election; head (4)

20 Regret (3)

21 Speck O)

ACROSS: ' 1 Medal 7 Invoice 8 Logical 9 Episode 11 Han¬
del 13 Taxidermy IS Dark Horse 19Trough 21 Masonry 23
Aladdin 24 What for 25 Terse

DOWN: 1 Mulch 2 Dugong 3 Locket 4 Bile 5 Mousse 6
Academy 10 Priest 12 Labour 14 Panache 16 Knotty 17 Er¬
rant 18 Sunder 20 Hinge 22 Yam

By Raymond Keene

This position is from the
te Almasi - Norwood,
tany 1994.

Tactical ‘combinations usu¬
ally occur in positions with
the queens on the board.
Here, however. White dem¬
onstrated that one must also
be on the lookout for tactics
in the endgame. What did he
play?

Solution, page 31
Raymond Keene, page 6

By PhUip Howard

PADKOS

a. A Greek island

b. A foot bandage

c. Food for the journey

PISMO

a. An American dam

b. A Sicilian urinal

c. An oolite

RAV1GOTE

a. A lascivious dance

b. A herbal pick-me-up
c A French sports jacket

POONTANG

a. A Chinese punt

b. An enamel paint

c. Sexual intercourse

Answers mi page 31

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